For more than twenty years, Sam Cayll has been waiting for an execution for his once crude crime.
Soon the verdict should be executed.
And then his grandson, a young lawyer from Chicago Adam Hall, unexpectedly includes in a desperate struggle for Sam’s life.
There is still time left – days, hours, minutes – to achieve the abolition of the sentence. But the “special people” have already engaged in the preparation of the gas chamber, opponents of the death penalty were already rallying at the walls of the prison, and the television people stretched out the wires and set the cameras in the hope of sensational reports.
Will Adam be able to help a person who destroyed not only someone else’s life, but also the life of his own family? Will he be able to find a common language with his grandfather – after all, there is not only a pile of lies between them, but also shameful family secrets? And most importantly – will the novice lawyer be able to reveal the main secret of Sam? How far is he ready to go for this? After all, saving his grandfather, he can jeopardize his own life …
Author
Grisham John
Editor
Kuznetsova L.A.
Translator
Kiryak Yuri Grigoryevich
Publisher
AST, 2014
Series
John Grisham’s bestsellers
Genre
Modern foreign prose
16+
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