The Confession: A Novel

John Grisham

Oct 2010 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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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Ratings and reviews

There has been a mistake, or a misunderstanding - after reading through the review of "Confession"- BUT NOT THE ACTUAL NOVEL I have nothing to say' Sorry Now I see that I PURCHASED the "Confession" I would like to read it all the way through be to able to give a review. Thanks Hans H. Balkie

This is his best one i read so far. I love grisham im about five books in and he's my favorite auther. This book made me cry. Also its funny that most people get stuck on him in jail. Lol.

Loved this book even though it mad me mad...can't say why as it would be a spoiler!

About the author

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
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.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of 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.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.