Best-selling author John Grisham's first non-fiction thriller is scheduled to be released on October 10, 2006. Get an advance look at the book.
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is the true account of Ron Williamson, an Oklahoma boy who was the first pick of the Oakland Athletics in the 1971 baseball draft. Six years later, his baseball career was over, brought down by drugs, drinking, women, and possibly mental illness. He was unable to hold a job and returned to Ada, Oklahoma to live with his mother.
In 1982, a local 21-year-old waitress was raped and murdered. For five years, the police were unable to solve the crime. In 1987, Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz were arrested and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the pair was convicted -- Fritz to life imprisonment and Williamson to death row.
You can read the first chapter of what promised to be an enthralling real-life thriller by visting Grisham's website.
John Grisham is the author of 18 legal thrillers, including The Firm, The Client, The Pelican Brief, and his 2005 bestseller The Broker.
