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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

ISBN-100739365673

ISBN-139780739365670

eBay Product ID (ePID)25069206238

Product Key Features

TopicMurder / General, General, Criminal Law / General, Penology

Book TitleInnocent Man : Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Publication Year2008

LanguageEnglish

GenreLaw, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJohn Grisham

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 In.

Item Length5.9 In.

Item Width5.1 In.

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"A gritty, harrowing, true-crime story." --"Time " "A triumph." --"Seattle Times" "Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his best-selling fiction." --"Boston Globe" "From the Paperback edition.", "A gritty, harrowing, true-crime story." - Time "A triumph." - Seattle Times "Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his best-selling fiction." - Boston Globe From the Paperback edition., "A gritty, harrowing, true-crime story." --"Time" "A triumph." --"Seattle Times" "Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his best-selling fiction." --"Boston Globe" "From the Paperback edition.", "A gritty, harrowing, true-crime story." -Time "A triumph." -Seattle Times "Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his best-selling fiction." -Boston Globe From the Paperback edition., "A gritty, harrowing, true-crime story." -- Time "A triumph." -- Seattle Times "Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his best-selling fiction." -- Boston Globe

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Number of Volumes5 vols.

Dewey Decimal345.766/02523

Edition DescriptionAbridged edition

SynopsisImpeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with 11th-hour drama, Grisham's first work of nonfiction reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is an audiobook that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. Abridged. 5 CDs., 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 twenty 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 reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you., 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 twenty 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 reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you. "From the Hardcover edition."