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無辜之人: 小鎮冤案紀實

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內容簡介 美國暢銷作家約翰．葛里遜探討美國小鎮的司法嚴重歪曲的實況，是他所有作品裡最為特出的一本。 知名影星喬治•克隆尼職掌的製片公司改編本書為紀錄片，於Netflix播映！ 1971年美國大聯盟的選秀會上，奧克拉荷馬州第一位被選中的新秀隆恩‧威廉森，和奧克蘭運動家隊簽約，就此告別家鄉小鎮埃達，踏上大聯盟職棒的征途。但6年後，他卻因手傷和嗜酒、嗑藥、女色等惡習而落魄返鄉；職棒夢碎，也開始有了精神疾病的症狀。 1982年，埃達一名21歲的雞尾酒女侍黛博拉‧蘇‧卡特遭到姦殺，案發5年，埃達警方一直未能破案。不過，他們卻把嫌犯的矛頭指向隆恩‧威廉森和他的朋友丹尼斯‧佛瑞茲；至於原因，始終如謎。兩人在1987年終於被捕，以死刑謀殺罪起訴。由於沒有實證，檢方僅以垃圾科學和監所抓耙仔、人犯的證詞為本，兩人被判有罪。丹尼斯‧佛瑞茲處以終身監禁，隆恩‧威廉森被判死刑。12年後，1999年的DNA比對才還兩人清白。隆恩‧威廉森卻在出獄5年後去世…這是約翰‧葛里遜寫的第一本非小說，探討美國小鎮的司法嚴重歪曲的實況，是他所有作品裡最為特出的一本。本書介出自遠流出版《無辜之人: 小鎮冤案紀實》 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss. Praise for The Innocent Man “Grisham has crafted a legal thriller every bit as suspenseful and fast-paced as his bestselling fiction.”—The Boston Globe “A gritty, harrowing true-crime story.”—Time “A triumph.”—The Seattle Times

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作者介紹 John Grisham is the author of twenty-eight novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

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