by John Grisham · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221108215
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«L'accusé» is John Grisham's nonfiction work about a miscarriage of justice, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (343 pages, in French).
In 1982, Debbie Carter is raped and murdered in Oklahoma. Ron Williamson, an alcoholic former baseball player, is sentenced to death; days before his execution, DNA exonerates him and reveals the real culprit. Grisham recounts the real case and denounces police and judicial failures.
Originally published in English in 2006 as «The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town»; the French translation is by Patrick Berthon.
A read for those interested in true crime and the failures of the American judicial system.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
