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The Confession

A Novel

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The Confession

Von: John Grisham
Gesprochen von: Scott Sowers
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 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story” (The Washington Post) from “the master of the legal thriller” (USA Today), an innocent man is about to be executed—and only a guilty man can save him.

WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION

For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck, content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.

Travis Boyette is such a man. In the small East Texas city of Sloan, 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 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? Belletristik Justiz Thriller

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“Brilliant . . . 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.”—The Washington Post

“[John Grisham] is a master at pacing. . . . The book starts fast and finishes faster.”—Los Angeles Times

“Packed with tension, legal roadblocks and shocking revelations . . . Readers who share his views as well as those sitting on the fence will find much to love and lament in the tragic story of Donté Drumm.”—USA Today

“Grisham is an adept ringmaster. . . . He channels his zeal and his legal expertise into a story that his fans will appreciate.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Grisham knows all the tricks - he is a splendid narrator, and the unusual point of view has its own attraction. You may have heard it all before - but not in this way. The reader is taken on an emotional roller-coaster ride, and beware - there are disappointments along the way, but in the end they don't count.

A Must for Fans - and future fans....

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ein ganz tolles Buch, perfekt vorgetragen von Scott Sowers, absolut fesselnd vom ersten bis zum letzten Moment, sehr empfehlenswert

fantastisches Buch

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Es geht sehr tief unter die Haut und sollte Pflichtlektüre für alle Befürworter der Todesstrafe werden. Toller Sprecher.

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Es geht tief unter die Haut

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awful Narrator, he sounds like reading off a script, without finesse, the story is boring

don't read it, it's absolutely not worth it

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