
The Innocent Man
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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Narrated by:
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Craig Wasson
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By:
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John Grisham
Number-one New York Times best seller
John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.
Soon to be a Netflix original documentary series
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.” (Entertainment Weekly)
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death - in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with 11th-hour drama, this audio edition of The Innocent Man plays like an edge-of-your-seat legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss.
“Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his best-selling fiction.” (The Boston Globe)
“A gritty, harrowing true-crime story.” (Time)
“A triumph.” (The Seattle Times)
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Grisham, with his expertise in the workings (or in this case, misworkings) of our legal system, gives us all a lesson and a wake-up call to ensure that the competence and conduct of every person and agency involved in the process is always above reproach: from the law enforcement agencies doing the investigations, through the attorneys on both sides of the case, to the judges and juries who pass judgement and sentences.
The saddest part of this story is not Mr. Williamson's early death, but the fact that despite being thoroughly cleared by the DNA evidence, the Oklahoma prosecutor never apologized for wrongfully prosecuting, and continued to hold a "sword of Damocles" over both Williamson and Fritz by never ruling them out as suspects in the murder, while the logical suspect and most likely murderer was ignored.
We can, and must, do better.
Grisham's real life thriller
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Perhaps that is why this book is so dry. It is filled with so many timelines and facts that it just becomes drone.
I had a difficult time getting through it and staying with it. The reader didn't help!
Too Dry
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Gut wrenching but good!
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Sobering
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Great book
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Land of the free maybe not, Definitely the brave.
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Fascinating Story.
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Better than reading!
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Riveting from start to finish! I highly recommend.
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Grisham’s Nonfiction Doesn’t Measure Up
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