{"id":6699,"date":"2021-09-20T18:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2021-09-20T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:06:02","slug":"defending-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"Defending Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The book is written by William Landay\u00a0\u00a0(1963<\/a>-), published in 2012. The eight-episode tv series was produced by Apple TV+, came out in 2020. (The trailer<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It’s about a Massachusetts\u00a0assistant district attorney Andy Barber, \u00a0(Newton<\/a>, 10 miles west of Boston), whose\u00a0teenage son Jacob, is accused of a murder of his classmate. Andy Barber’s father is serving a life sentencing for murder and rape. When he met his future wife Laurie, he told her and later, his son Jacob that he didn’t know his father at all.<\/p>\n

I haven’t read a novel in a long time, and sometimes, impatiently, I would peek the ending (I know I know …) but this book kept me going. And audio books are hard to read the end first. ha ha ha.<\/p>\n

~~ Some spoiler ~~<\/p>\n

When Jacob was freed on Leonard Patz, the known paedophile left a confession and committed suicide, \u00a0the book has about an hour to go, I kind of guest the ending. … And I thought about the disappearance of Natalee Holloway (1986<\/a>-2005) in 2005. Her body was never found and the prime suspect\u00a0Joran van der Sloot (1987<\/a>-) is serving long sentencing for murder of a woman on the day five years ago that Holloway disappeared.<\/p>\n

Can people inherit genes, say, good toward math or toward crime?<\/p>\n

How do you deal with your own child who looks seemingly innocent and decent but a cold blood murder?<\/p>\n