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The Confession

Yazan: John Grisham
Seslendiren: Scott Sowers
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For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn't care. He just can't believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.

Travis Boyette is such a man. 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 in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.

Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what's right and confess.

But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they're about to execute an innocent man?

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I enjoy Grisham’s novels and his cynicism over the justice available in US legal system, particularly for the disadvantaged in society. This novel epitomises this as a young black man, Donte Drumm, is accused of a brutal murder on little evidence other than a confession, later retracted, got out of him by dubious police tactics. He is convicted by an all white jury and sentenced to death. After four years on death row and numerous appeals his execution day is imminent. At the 11th hour a confession to a clergyman by a serial sex offender just released from prison leads to a hectic race to try and stop the execution. It’s gripping stuff: depressing too as politicians motivated by a desire to be re-elected, in a Texas with majority-opinion in favour of the death penalty, are hell-bent on ignoring any evidence that exonerates the prisoner. Although this is fiction it exemplifies what can happen to those without the funds to get professional legal representation.

It’s a gripping and thought-provoking novel that made me feel angry at times but nevertheless a great listen that is admirably narrated.

“Edge-of the-seat” legal drama

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Great book, one of Grisham's finest. From start to finish a gripping read, and one hard to put down!

Great

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He lays it on with a trowel in the beginning but stick with it. The second half of the story is very good.

Heavy Handed At The Start

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One of my favourites novels from John Grisham, and kept me glued on until the very end

I can’t stop listening

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At times quite upsetting, but I suppose that is what a book like this is supposed to be like.

Wonderful morality tale

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