The Innocent Man

mass market paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2007 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-24383-0
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OCLC Number:
181352093

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Murder and injustice in a small townJohn Grisham's first work of non-fiction, 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. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For …

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Subjects

  • Capital Punishment
  • Infamous Crimes And Criminals
  • Social Science
  • True Crime / Espionage
  • Sociology
  • Legal System
  • Murder - General
  • Penology
  • Social Science / Penology