THE INNOCENT MAN (LARGE PRINT) by John Grisham

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John Grisham’s “sterling gift for storytelling” (Entertainment Weekly) makes this tale of murder and injustice as harrowing as his bestselling novels…and more chilling because it is true.

In 1971, Ron Williamson left Ada, Oklahoma, to play baseball for the Oakland A’s. It was a dream come true that shattered six years later, after drinking and drugs led him down the wrong road. Anyone could see that Williamson was in bad shape. But was he a killer?

When cocktail waitress Debra Sue Carter was murdered in 1982, police were convinced that Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz were responsible, even though she was seen arguing with an ex-boyfriend the night she was killed. Based on zero physical evidence and the word of jailhouse informers, the two men were hounded for years before they were arrested and found guilty. But while Fritz was given a life sentence, Williamson was sent to Death Row…

Now, John Grisham does a masterful job recreating the chain of events that led a troubled man further down the path to destruction, until five days before his scheduled execution, when DNA evidence snatched him from death. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will surely open your eyes…. Explicit violence.

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