The Confession: A Novel by John Grisham (Epub)

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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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Review “The Confession is the kind of grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to be inhaled as quickly as possible. But it’s also a superb work of social criticism in the literary troublemaker tradition of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle….Brilliant”–Washington Post”Grisham is the master of the legal thriller.”–USA TodayNO ONE KEEPS YOU IN SUSPENSE LIKE AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER “The secrets of Grisham’s success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his Theme—little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end.” —Time magazine “The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment” —Los Angeles Times “With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions.” —Entertainment Weekly “John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we’ve got in the United States these days.” —The New York Times Book Review “Grisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “A mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues.” —Chicago Sun-Times “A legal literary legend.” —USA TodayFrom the Hardcover edition.

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⭐ The heartbreak is the execution of a completely innocent man. A white cheerleader is kidnapped and a black football player is falsely accused. When he willingly spoke with police he signed away his Miranda rights in good faith. He is only 17 and he is kept in the interrogation room and harassed and deliberately lied for hours until he confesses to a crime he didn’t commit. In spite of a iffy confession and falsified evidence he is convicted. Meanwhile the actual killer, a drifter who worked in the town for a short time and became obsessed with the cheerleader and killed her after kidnapping and raping her in another state, has moved on and is caught attempting to attack another woman and ends up in prison.He develops remorse and when it becomes clear that an execution is imminent and approaches a Lutheran priest in Kansas where he is living in a halfway house while on probation. and confesses and convinces him he is telling the truth by showing him the girl’s high school ring.Back in Texas things are down to the wire with less than a week before the execution. The victim’s mother who while genuinely grieving has a love of media attention and has a muckraking sensationalism happy TV personality filming every tear.The convict convinces the priest to drive him to the Texas town so he can right the wrong he allowed to continue. The convict has a brain tumor and reportedly his days are numbered.In spite of the confession and attempted recantations , the state refuses to issue a stay. This is where the frustration comes in as I am sure you already know. Multiple officials deliberately evade attempts because they refuse to admit they had the wrong man on death row for 9 years. They cling to their coerced confession like a banner. In spite of the killer confessing on live TV. Rioting ensues.The day after the execution, the convict leads the way to the body and then the corrupt officials begin to get their richly deserved comeuppance.This book wrung my heart. John Grisham is simply the best when it comes to legal thrillers.

⭐ I don’t know how I missed reading this when it was first pulished in 2010. It is now 2020, & it is amazing to me how eerily (& sadly) prophetic it was/is. From Travon Martin et all during the Obama administration to reaching the tipping point with this year with George Floyd is chilling. The same problems still exist & by that I mean the response to the injustice. With few exceptions, everyone who saw that video was shocked & appalled, not that he was the angel the MSM would have us to believe. It was just wrong. How Grisham predicted the almost identical response is amazing. I can’t say that I enjoyed this book but it was very well written, well researched & certainly timely. If you are looking for an uplifting bit of fiction, probably not the book for you.as the angel the MSM would have usto believe.

⭐ I have read most of Grisham’s books. This was merely a treatise on capital punishment. Grisham is clearly opposed to it,which is neither here nor there. I found myself flipping unread pages to get to the storyline. I was extremely disappointed to have to MAKE myself finish this book.

⭐ Finding the things your drivers deliver is almost a game. Not a particularly fun game though! Mostly they are leave things where they will get wet. This one, however, was left where I would not have found it until next time someone went down to mow the lawn – maybe a week from now. If you had not left a picture, I would not have gone anywhere remotely close to where it was left – on a rock in a planter where the sprinklers will soon be coming on. I couldn’t see it from the driveway when I drove in and out. I couldn’t see it from the house. It’s kind of like going on an Easter Egg Hunt. Your drivers are not among the smartest delivery people. Entertaining perhaps, but not too bright! Incidentally, I am returning a box of books – 6 books, total cost over $125 – because they were left on the ground in the half hour before dark and between rain and hail storms the other day. This has to be expensive for you. Try training them – it’s possible some of them could learn!

⭐ I love reading every John Grisham book, usually more than once. This book has to be the absolute best. At first, I thought it was dragging and taking too long to get to the good part of the book, but quickly realized that what I thought was dragging only added to the heart pounding anticipation of what was going to happen. This has to be the best book that John Grisham has written!

⭐ A blatant political attack on Capital punishment from an emotional rather than rational view point.Drags the reader through multiple, lengthy, repetitive word drizzles [I was going to stay word storm, but too boring too qualify] of unnecessary verbiage. His treatment of themother of the victim was shameful at best. Should have researched the structure of the LCMS. Thechurch body has neither a bishop or nor a very hierarchical structure.I skipped through huge parts of this book – it could perhaps have been an acceptable short story or novella.I expected more from John Grisham.

⭐ The Confession is the latest legal thriller from accomplished author John Grisham. I’ve read many of Grisham’s books and have enjoyed almost all of them. In this book I found that in some ways I was more engrossed and captivated by the story than any other Grisham book I’ve read, and at the same time, very much turned off by Grisham’s blatant political agenda in the book.The basic premise of the book is that a white girl in a small Texas town goes missing. After no evidence is found, the police receive a `tip’ that it was a young black classmate of the girl. During the interrogation the detectives manage to force a confession out of the boy, who is subsequently convicted and sentenced to the death penalty.Meanwhile, the real killer is free. Days before the scheduled execution, the real killer begins to come forward with his own confession… The bulk of the book takes place during these tense last hours. From this standpoint, I was enthralled by the tension and the storyline (I don’t want to give away anymore details, as it may ruin some of the tension for potential readers of the book).However, it is clear that Grisham is trying to blast the ethics of capital punishment… along the way, he uses the most common arguments put forth by liberals: the fallibility of the criminal justice system, “excessive” governmental power, the insufficiency of revenge as a motive, and most predominantly in the book – the possibility of executing an innocent person.Various Christians and pastors are predominant throughout the book – and as a pastor myself, I was intrigued to see how their views were represented. Sadly, Grisham does a very poor job on this crucial element of his book.In this entry, I do not have the time or space to give a more balanced, thoughtful, and in-depth view of this sensitive issue. However, for anyone interested, I would highly recommend J. Daryl Charles article “The Ethics of Capital Punishment” found here: […]

⭐ A frightening look at “justice” undone. Donte’s sentence was “death by a thousand paper cuts”. It wasn’t one action that condemned Donte, but many that kept piling up.Grisham is a great storyteller in that he allows us to become involved and question our attitudes and beliefs.Three and a half stars.

⭐ The Confession by John Grisham, Doubleday, 2010, 432 pages. e-book format read and reviewed.The Confession is a typical presentation by this author. It is replete with discussions of the law and this time the legalities of the appeal process for a condemned killer. It has an interesting twist in that a protestant minister finds it necessary to break the law in order to attempt to deliver a killer to another state to provide a statement that, in turn, should provide grounds for an appeal to stop the execution of an innocent condemned man. The story is thrilling and provides a steady stream of nail-biting suspense. I am a little surprised at the presence of a few areas of what seems to be needless repetition and/or of `uncondensed’ material. I also am surprised by `recovery’ of the killer in the latter part of the book. The killer had claimed to be suffering from a deadly brain malignancy and had been well-described as suffering from signs and symptoms of such a disease – even convincing a physician. Suddenly toward the end of the book, he claims to have been suffering from a far lesser malignancy and acts accordingly. The change, although fitting nicely into the story line, is a little difficult to accept. To conclude, however, if one is willing to overlook these difficulties, The Confession is a real page-turner that provides the reader with a strong, but partially flawed, argument with respect to abandoning the death penalty. John H. Manhold

⭐ First, I am a total Grisham fan so I’ve yet to dislike anything he’s ever written, so I know my review is prejudiced towards him. What a like the most about Grisham’s novels is that they show us the law, warts and all, and this is something I don’t get anywhere else.For this book in particular, The Confession, we are given a view of the death penalty that most people have never had. I had no idea how easy it would be to railroad an innocent man/woman onto death row, or how easy it is for my fellow Americans to push the button, so to speak. When this ability to put another human being to death with a clear conscious is married to the Christian belief system, I find myself truly stunned. I had imagined that being a Christian meant doing what Jesus would do, and yet Christians find it easy do the complete opposite. It says in the Bible that Jesus had overseen a death penalty case, a woman being stoned. When asked his opinion, Jesus, who was obviously against it, said, ‘let he who is without sin throw the first stone’.Spoiler alert!Anyway, the Confession had me spellbound, and it was the first time I’ve cried reading a novel since The Bridges of Madison County. Grisham paints a picture of the family’s pain that was so real that it cut like a knife. The death penalty was brought home in a stunning way, and for me, this is why we need novels. To show us things we might never encounter in our lives otherwise. To give us insight and compassion into important issues, instead of the slogans and surface nonsense we get from our sound-bite society at large.I think this book should be on the reading lists of high school students across our nation. Grisham delivers a fine message in an entertaining way, not something that’s easily done. And that’s the sign of a true genius at work.

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