06908cam a2200481 4500 272148908 TxAuBib 20160917120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307702951 0307702952 a1440bf2-8c3a-4baf-810e-6f615dcaf888 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 333163 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib GRISHAM, JOHN. The Confession [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2010. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 400MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen. HTML:An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. 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? From the Hardcover edition.. HTML:November 1, 2010 Grisham's recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren't able to support an earnest protest against the death penalty. In 2007, almost on the eve of the execution of Donté Drumm, an African-American college football star, for the 1998 murder of a white cheerleader whose body was never found, Travis Boyette, a creepy multiple sex offender, confesses that he's guilty of the crime to Kansas minister Keith Schroeder. With Drumm's legal options dwindling fast and with the threat of civil unrest in his Texas hometown if the execution proceeds, Schroeder battles to convince Boyette to go public with the truth—and to persuade the condemned man's attorney that Boyette's story needs to be taken seriously. While the action progresses with a certain grim realism, Schroeder's superficial responses to the issues raised undercut the impact. As with The Appeal, the author's passionate views on serious flaws in the justice system don't translate well into fiction.. Publisher's Weekly. Grisham's latest legal thriller involves a lawyer and a preacher who are seeking evidence to exonerate a man on death row for a grisly murder. As the clock ticks, Travis Boyette suddenly appears, making everyone question who the real killer is. Scott Sowers differentiates the main characters--from the deliberate Boyette to the troubled prisoner. Sowers gives a believable Texas twang to many of the characters, including the frustrated defense lawyer and his cadre of opponents. He uses his clearest voice for the Reverend, who finds himself caught in an ethical quandary. This is Grisham at his best, winding a lawyerly tale about personal ethics, criminal justice, and religious values, and the narration is equally well crafted. M.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:"The Confession is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it's also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle....Brilliant". HTML:Washington Post. "The secrets of Grisham's success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Theme--little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.". Time magazine. "With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly. "The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment". HTML:Los Angeles Times. HTML: "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days.". HTML:The New York Times Book Review. "Grisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.". HTML:Philadelphia Inquirer. HTML: "A mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.". HTML:Chicago Sun-Times. "Grisham is the master of the legal thriller.". HTML:USA Today. "A legal literary legend.". HTML:USA Today. Suspense. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-09-16 23:00:02. 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