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“[A] grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story.”—The Washington Post
“[John Grisham] is a master at pacing. . . . The book starts fast and finishes faster.”—Los Angeles Times
“Packed with tension, legal roadblocks and shocking revelations.”—USA Today
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First time in paperback
An innocent man is about to be executed.
Only a guilty man can save him.
In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting story but...,
This review is from: The Confession: A Novel (Hardcover)
The Confession was an interesting read but it was so well padded, you would think John Grisham was being paid by the word
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
More Social Criticism than Legal Thrills,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (#1 HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: The Confession: A Novel (Hardcover)
"And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death." -- Acts 13:28 (NKJV)If you ask most people whether they favor the death penalty, you'll get an opinion that's largely unrelated to the practical issues involved. The crusading death-penalty skeptic in John Grisham comes out in this novel, much as the social reformer in Charles Dickens can be found in David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. If you are familiar with death penalty legal practice, you'll be impressed with the accuracy of the fictional portrayal here. Grisham knows what he's writing about. If you read this book, you'll learn how easy it is for an innocent person to be convicted of murder in Texas, how expensive it is to put someone to death, and the various sordid agendas that can play out in death-penalty cases. As such, this book is a pretty good substitute for reading a nonfiction book on the same subject . . . the risk of the innocent being condemned to death. If you doubt that can happen, check out some Web site that shows how many convicted "murderers" have been found innocent through DNA testing, many years after the fact of false incarceration and much suffering. But that's probably not why you pick up a John Grisham novel about the law. You probably want to read great stuff about how corrupt lawyers are. There's definitely some legal malpractice here, but there's also some unselfish legal practice. All in all, the book won't satisfy most people who want to see lawyers discredited. I also didn't find that the book contained enough suspense to keep my interest at a high level. It seemed to me that the twists and turns of the plot were thoroughly telegraphed well in advance. Ultimately, this is one of those depressing stories that some people will wish they had not read. Even where comeuppance occurs, it doesn't completely satisfy. But as an entertaining read, The Confession is a pretty ordinary book compared to the best of what John Grisham has done in the past.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Political diatribe,
This review is from: The Confession: A Novel (Hardcover)
This book is a political diatribe on capital punishment rather than a novel. Grisham's first books, A Time to Kill, The Firm and The Pelican Brief were great novels but his work since that time seems more like a need to make money than a need to write good fiction. As a novel, this book is boring, boring, boring.
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