In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo’s.
Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister.
Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated.
About Author:
John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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جان گریشام، زاده ی 8 فوریه ی 1955، نویسنده ی آمریکایی است. او ابتدا به تحصیل در رشته ی حقوق روی آورد و پس از اخذ مدرک این رشته از دانشگاه ایالتی می سی سی پی، مدتی به کار وکالت در شهر آکسفورد مشغول شد. مدتی نماینده ی مجلس در پارلمان ایالتی بود و پس از چند سال از کار کناره گیری کرد.گریشام سال هاست به عنوان نویسنده ی رمان های حقوقی پرفروش در آمریکا مطرح است و آثار او به بسیاری از زبان های زنده ی دنیا از جمله فارسی هم ترجمه شده اند و از اکثر کتاب های وی یک نسخه سینمایی نیز ساخته شده است.او تا کنون 23 رمان، یک کتاب غیرداستانی، یک مجموعه داستانی و یک کتاب نوجوانانه منتشر کرده است. «هیأت منصفه»، «شرکت» و «پرونده» شماری از رمان های موفق این نویسنده اند. کتاب های گریشام به 38 زبان ترجمه شده و 250 میلیون جلد از آن ها در سراسر جهان به فروش رسیده است. گریشام در ویرجیانا و می.سی.سی.پی زندگی می کند.