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John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits—drinking, drugs, and women.

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada, Oklahoma, named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz.