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In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grisham s first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence a book no American can afford to miss."
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--This text refers to the audio_download edition."Grisham has written both an American tragedy and his strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true."--"Entertainment Weekly"
"Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his bestselling fiction."--"The""Boston Globe"
"A gritty, harrowing true-crime story."--"Time"
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"A triumph.""--The Seattle Times"
Grisham has written both an American tragedy and his strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true. "Entertainment Weekly"
Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his bestselling fiction. "The" "Boston Globe"
A gritty, harrowing true-crime story. "Time"
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A triumph. " The Seattle Times""
John Grisham is the author of twenty-three novels, including, most recently, "The Litigators; "one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers.He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi."
--This text refers to the audio_download edition.