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The dominant #1 New York Times bestseller hailed as "important...muckraking of a high order" (Washington Post) -- now published simultaneously in premium mass market and trade paperback! The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small town Appalachia. There, for the first time in her career, she was confronted with real clients with real problems. She also stumbled across secrets that should have remained buried deep in the mountains forever.

Available for the first time in a trade paperback edition, the most recent bestseller by John Grisham! With over 200 million copies of his books in print in the United States alone, John Grisham is one of the world's best-known and best-loved authors. Now, edition is a must-have for Grisham's millions of fans, and a brilliant introduction of his work for those who have yet to discover him.

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES.The #1 bestselling author's acclaimed work of nonfiction: a true story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. 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.