Criminal has a change of heart
Travis Boyette is a man content to let the police and prosecutors convict the wrong man and he does not care how they do it. He is happy that the verdict is guilty. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time even to be executed.
In a small East Texas city, 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 the police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donte’ Drumm, a local football star and march him off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime. Donte’ 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 is right and confess. But how can he convince a whole town of lawyers, judges and politicians that they are about to execute the wrong man?
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I'm a big fan of John Grisham's writing style, and The Confession was the first e-book I purchased for my new Kindle. Like his previous novels, The Confession is a smooth read; I finished it in just over a day. Grisham has a knack for interspersing engaging dialogue and narrative, and he knows how to end a chapter leaving you with a desire to read the next.
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