The Confession

#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?

“" 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 Today NO 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 Today From the Hardcover edition.”

“[A] grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story.”—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.”—USA Today
 
“There’s no doubt that Grisham has his finger on the pulse of America.”—Orlando Sentinel

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.

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