'Searching and heartfelt... ORDINARY HEROES has the conviction of utter sincerity... The thor's anguish about war is unmistakably real... Story-telling drives his fiction.'

---New York Times

"What Turow wrestles with is of a deeper and more complete nature [than legal thrillers]. The correct cat-egory for Turow is rather that of a major American novelist rising from the tradition of the Midwest, such as Theordore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and James T.Farrell."

-- Los Angeles limes

Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his expe-riences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of David's court-martial, Stewart is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man he never knew. Using military archives, old letters, and David's own notes, he discovers that David, a JAG lawyer, had pursued a maverick U.S.officer in Europe, fallen in love with a beautiful resistance fighter, and fought in the war's deadliest conflicts. In re-constructing the terrible events and agonizing choices his father faced on the battlefield, in the courtroom, and in love, Stewart gains a closer understanding of his father's secret past and of the brutal nature of war itself.