The Innocent Man

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Ron Williamson was a star college sportsman in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, when he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll, and he returned to Ada a lonely drifter.
Soon after his homecoming, a local cocktail waitress was raped and murdered. With no immediate leads, the police worked the case for five years before arresting Williamson and charging him with her murder. Despite no physical evidence, and based largely on the testimony of jailhouse snitches, he was found guilty at trial and sent to death row.
Left to await his fate, Williamson was the only person to know the terrible truth: that an innocent man had been sent on a journey to hell. A journey from which he might never return.
'John Grisham has built his stunning writing career on producing' brilliant, fast moving, utterly believable legal thrillers. His 19th book, however, is so harrowing and gruesome that it just doesn't seem... Tovább

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Ron Williamson was a star college sportsman in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, when he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll, and he returned to Ada a lonely drifter.
Soon after his homecoming, a local cocktail waitress was raped and murdered. With no immediate leads, the police worked the case for five years before arresting Williamson and charging him with her murder. Despite no physical evidence, and based largely on the testimony of jailhouse snitches, he was found guilty at trial and sent to death row.
Left to await his fate, Williamson was the only person to know the terrible truth: that an innocent man had been sent on a journey to hell. A journey from which he might never return.
'John Grisham has built his stunning writing career on producing' brilliant, fast moving, utterly believable legal thrillers. His 19th book, however, is so harrowing and gruesome that it just doesn't seem conceivable. Yet it's true - all of it' Mirror
'A work of art this is a terrible and beautiful book. The burning care and respect for his fellow man shown by Grisham permeates and warms every page' Sunday Express
like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, The Innocent Man hmgs a novelist's eye to re-creating a complex chain of events and human reaction surrounding a crime and its aftermath' >
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