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by John Grisham (Author), Jim McCloskey (Author)
BESTSELLER #1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES - "El maestro del thriller legal" (Associated Press) se une al "padrino del movimiento de la inocencia" (Texas Monthly) para compartir diez desgarradoras historias verdaderas sobre condenas injustas.
John Grisham es conocido a nivel mundial por sus novelas bestsellers, pero su pasión por la justicia en la vida real lo llevó a trabajar con Jim McCloskey, de Centurion Ministries, la primera organización dedicada a exonerar gente inocente condenada por error. Juntos ofrecen una mirada al interior de muchas injusticias en el sistema penal de Estados Unidos.
"Each of these stories is told with astonishing power."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
"Gripping . . . compelling . . . What makes [Framed] important reading isn't the shock value advertised in the title. It's the exposure of the infuriating, recurrent factors involved in so many unrighteous convictions."--The Washington Post
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it's his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.
Author Biography
John Grisham es autor de cincuenta libros que se han convertido en números uno en las listas de best sellers de manera consecutiva y que han sido traducidos a casi cincuenta idiomas. Sus obras más recientes incluyen El sueño de Sooley, La lista del juez, Los adversarios, Los chicos de Biloxi, El intercambio y Tiempo de perdón, que está siendo adaptada como serie por HBO.
Grisham ha ganado dos veces el Premio Harper Lee de ficción legal y ha sido galardonado con el Premio al Logro Creativo de Ficción de la Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados Unidos. Cuando no está escribiendo, Grisham trabaja en la junta directiva de Innocence Project y Centurion Ministries, dos organizaciones dedicadas a lograr la exoneración de personas condenadas injustamente. Muchas de sus novelas exploran problemas profundamente arraigados en el sistema de justicia estadounidense. John vive en una granja en Virginia.
