Book description
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save
him.
Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city
of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school
cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then
watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a
local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted
and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row: his fate had been decided.
Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Over 400
miles away in Kansas, Travis faces a fate of his own: an inoperable
brain tumour will soon deliver the end. Reflecting on his miserable
life, he decides to do what's right. After years of silence he is
ready to confess.
But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges and politicians
that they're about to execute an innocent man?
John Grisham
is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, a
collection of short stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the
Board of Directors for the Innocence Project in New York and is the
Chairman on the Board of Directors for the Mississippi Innocence Project
at the Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
His website is www. johngrisham. co. uk
