In John Grisham`s first nonfiction book, he disinters the appalling details of a miscarriage of justice in Oklahoma. After a short disappointing career as a major league baseball player, Ron Williamson returned to his hometown of Ada, moved in with his mother, and began to lose his mind. When a young cocktail waitress was raped and murdered, the local police decided to target the mentally unstable Williamson. Using coercive methods and the flimsiest of evidence the District Attorney railroaded Williamson, took advantage of his paranoia and his blind public defender, and eventually sent him to Death Row. With his typically gripping prose and his extensive knowledge of the legal system, Grisham exposes a particularly awful instance of corruption in the legal system.
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I know this book was based on a true life situation, but I found it very upsetting a quarter of the way through. I then forced myself to read another quarter of the book hoping it would become less upsetting. It did not. I rarely put a book down as unreadable, but I had to with this one.
I suspect Mr. Grisham believes this was a story which needed to be told and I certainly feel for he and his family and his wrongful imprisonment, but I see enough upsetting things on the 6 PM news.
It was a gift for my husband, a huge Grisham fan. I thought it was one missing from his collection. Turns out it's because he didn't like it and he just didn't remember reading it.
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