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The Confession

John Grisham

2010432 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Random House · ENGISBN 9780739377895
  • 2010Arrow Books · ENGISBN 9780099588986
  • 2011Windsor | Paragon · ENGISBN 9781445854854
  • 2011Dell · 515 pages · ENGISBN 9780440245117
  • 2012Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks · 435 pages · ENGISBN 9780345534552
  • 2013Penguin Random House · 464 pages · ENGISBN 9780099545798
  • 2010Doubleday · 432 pagesISBN 9780385528054
  • 2010Century · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9781846057151

An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette 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 police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté 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’s right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?

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