The Confession: A Novel

"I like Grisham for a number of reasons" according to B. Burnham. Anticipating a very long plane trip, I looked for an audiobook that would keep me engaged and interested and would last long enough to get me through the return flight. My thoughts immediately went to a John Grisham novel. I like Grisham for a number of reasons, one being that his books never . Extremely talented author but this book was beneath him. Somehow I missed the publication of this book and just recently had the chance to find and read it. Have always enjoyed Mr. Grisham's booksuntil now. Wow! In my opinion, it appears he tried using his writing talents to sway his readers in a political and sometimes personal attack rather than w. A decent read, occasionally tedious An enlightening expose' about the Texas death penalty machine. Though fiction, I know that some of the more egregious flaws of Texas justice portrayed in this book have actually occurred. Names were changed protect the guilty (Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals). It

JOHN GRISHAM has written nineteen previous novels and one work of nonfiction, The Innocent Man, published in 2006. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.From the Hardcover edition.

He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. 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. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and confess. Travis Boyette is such a man. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?From the Hardcover edition.. An

(Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. . In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of Donté Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he's guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. All rights reserved. With Drumm's legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth--and to persuade the condemned man's attorney that Boyette's story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder's superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. From Publishers Weekly Grisham's recent slump continues with anothe