The Gun Runner's Daughter

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Bantam Books, 2000 - Fiction - 416 pages
Law student Allison Rosenthal has lived a life of wealth and privilege: the finest schools, summers in Martha's Vineyard, a future both brilliant and certain. Until the call that shatters her life: Her father has been arrested for illegal arms dealing, a case that is being directed from the highest levels of government. And the prosecutor hand-chosen to lead the nation's unbeatable case is David Treat Dennis--her secret lover from a long-ago summer.
Even as the media's unblinking eye focuses on her family, Allison will face terrible choices and take stunning chances.
Drawn once more into an affair with the ambitious Dennis, she will be caught in a relationship charged with danger--and possibilities. How far is she willing to go to protect those she loves? Whose claim on her love and loyalty is greater? And how thin is the line between justice and revenge?

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About the author (2000)

Neil Simon Gordon was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 8, 1958. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Michigan, a master's degree from the University of Paris, and a doctorate from Yale University. His debut novel, The Sacrifice of Isaac, was published in 1995. His other novels included The Gun Runner's Daughter, You're a Big Girl Now, and The Company You Keep, which was adapted into a movie. He also was the dean of Eugene Lang College at the New School in New York, the dean of the American University of Paris, and the founding literary editor of Boston Review. He died from multiple myeloma on May 19, 2017 at the age of 58.

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