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Robert, recently returned to live in Chicago, is contacted by a childhood friend who has just completed more than twenty years in prison for a horrific crime. Without Prejudice is a compulsive story of race and the dangers that can lie in the past.From the Hardcover edition.
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About the Author
Andrew Rosenheim was born in Chicago in 1955 and grew up there and in Michigan. A graduate of Yale University, he came to England in 1977 as a Rhodes Scholar and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of Stillriver and Keeping Secrets. He is married and has twin daughters.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Aviva Futorian, a lawyer in Chicago who is renowned for her work on behalf of Death Row and long-term prisoners. Her knowledge of both the mechanisms and the harshness of the State of Illinoiss justice system was invaluable to me. She understood from the beginning that my priorities were fiction rather than fact, and she has no responsibility for any errors of fact in my entirely imagined story. I want to thank Elizabeth G Lent for introducing me to her.
Id like to thank my editors at Random House, Kate Elton and Vanessa Neuling, for their tireless efforts to make this a better book and their unwillingness to let me off the hook. My agent Gillon Aitken and his colleague Clare Alexander were consistently supportive and had useful criticisms, and I want to thank Jon and Ann Conibear for their friendship and generosity.
My brother Dan Rosenheim, who was a reporter in Chicago, read my early drafts with an encouraging but incisive eye; he was never reluctant to let his youngest brother know when hed gone wrong. James Rosenheim as always proved a thoughtful, careful reader.
My wife Clare cajoled and encouraged me throughout the writing of this novel, and supplied the title; I thank her. I also want to thank my daughters Laura and Sabrina, who put up with their father when he was immersed perhaps not without complaint, but then they were nine years old when I started.
By the same author
Stillriver
Keeping Secrets
For my brother Dan
(who was there)
WITHOUTPREJUDICEAndrew Rosenheim This eBook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the authors and publishers rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.
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Published by Arrow Books 2009
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Copyright Andrew Rosenheim 2008
Andrew Rosenheim has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work
This is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the authors imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Hutchinson
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Table of Contents
I
1
B OBBY , YOU THERE ?
The week before the phone had twice rung in the middle of the night. Each time a husky drunken voice had asked, Wilma around? So now hed let the answering machine answer.
Yet this voice was familiar. Why? No one had called him Bobby for over thirty years. He scanned a mental list of possibles. Nothing clicked.
Bobby, pick up. Its me. The voice was slightly muffled by background noise, as if a party were going on.
What time was it? Outside the street was silent. The windows were open to catch any breeze in the sweet mug air, and from Sheridan Road he thought he heard the hushed slide of passing cars, or was it the lake breaking against the shore? He could not detect the faintest hint of morning light. Lifting his head he saw why: the luminescent clock on the walnut dresser across the room read 12:47.
Who was it? As he reached for the phone and Anna stirred next to him, he felt an unsuppressible anxiety stick in his chest like a stone. Hello, he said, trying to sound calm.
Is that you, Bobby?
Who is this?
Cant you tell? It sounded like the voice of a black man, but Robert wasnt sure; he had been away too long to make the distinction automatically. Whoever it was, the man sounded subdued, almost dismayed that Robert didnt recognise him.
No, I cant.
You used to be able to, the man said, and this time the hurt was undisguised.
Who are you? Robert asked impatiently.
Duval.
Robert took a deep breath. How did you know where I was?
Lily. She gave me your number.
Silence hung between them in the sponge-like air. At last Robert said, Do you want me to call you back?
Why do you want to do that?
I thought maybe you werent allowed to make calls. He looked again at the luminescent numbers across the room. At least not this late.
I guess you dont know then.
Know what?
The voice sounded more relaxed now. Im out, Bobby.
Robert didnt say a word.
You still there?
Im here, Duval. He paused momentarily. Congratulations.
Duval said, I know its late, but I wanted you to know.
Wait a minute. Robert sat up in the bed. Dont go, Duval.
Somebodys waiting to use the phone, he said. Ill be in touch. Dont worry youll hear from me again. And the line went dead.
The tape machine whirred inconsequentially, then stopped. Next to him his wife stirred again. Who was that? she asked with a voice full of sleep.
Nothing important. Go back to sleep.
When Anna didnt reply he realised she had. He lay there, fully awake himself, the sheet drawn down, listening. He heard nothing but Duvals voice in his head. Im out.
He wondered if he would call again, and hoped he wouldnt. He tried to picture Duval from the last time hed seen him, over twenty years before, in that cramped courtroom downtown. Hed sat looking dazed, seated at the table next to the public defender. A row behind him Vanetta had sat hunched over, her hands clasped together in a twisted prayer.
But Robert couldnt visualise the face. All he could see now in his minds eye was the little boy he had known so long ago the high cheekbones and long jaw, the cheap thick-lensed glasses, the shy expression when they had played together.
Suddenly he shivered slightly and pulled the sheet up. But he wasnt cold he realised it was a sudden stab of fear hed felt. Why am I scared? he asked himself. And old as he was, he wished Vanetta were still alive.
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