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Primal Fear by the late William Diehl (
SYKM,
Wikipedia), the 1st in his Martin Vail series of mystery/crime thrillers starring a Chicago defense attorney, originally out from Ballantine Books in 1994. This was turned into an eponymous film (
IMDB,
Wikipedia) starring Richard Gere.
Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician loves to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team--a tight group of men and women who must uncover the extraordinary truth behind the archbishop's slaughter. They do, in a heart-stopping climax unparalleled for the surprise it springs on the reader.