The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grisham, John, PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing Company, In ong>theong> ong>toong>wn of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going ong>toong> be ong>theong> next Mickey Mantle. But on his way ong>toong> ong>theong> Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. ong>Theong>n, on a winter night in , not far ong>fromong> Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. ong>Theong> investigation led nowhere. Until, on ong>theong> flimsiest evidence, it led ong>toong> Ron Williamson. ong>Theong> washed-up small-ong>toong>wn hero was charged, tried, and sentenced ong>toong> death--in a trial littered with ong>lyingong> witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man's already broken life...and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly ong>toong>ld, 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 ong>theong> presumption of innocence--a book no American can afford ong>toong> miss.