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Beschreibung

From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today’s headlines.

When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida’s flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian swamps of the Suwannee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control.

Contending with racial unrest and a sensational media, Tow-son’s defense attorney, Jack Swyteck, knows that the stakes could not be higher—inside or outside the courthouse. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamal’s murder bears disturbing similarities to a Jim Crow-era lynching. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With a community in chaos and a young man’s life in jeopardy, Jack will use every resource to find out. Risking his own reputation, Jack plunges headfirst into the darkest recesses of the South’s past, and its murky present, to uncover the truth.

From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today’s headlines.

When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida’s flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian swamps of the Suwannee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control.

Contending with racial unrest and a sensational media, Tow-son’s defense attorney, Jack Swyteck, knows that the stakes could not be higher—inside or outside the courthouse. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamal’s murder bears disturbing similarities to a Jim Crow-era lynching. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With a community in chaos and a young man’s life in jeopardy, Jack will use every resource to find out. Risking his own reputation, Jack plunges headfirst into the darkest recesses of the South’s past, and its murky present, to uncover the truth.

Über den Autor
JAMES GRIPPANDO is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense. The Penny Jumper is his twenty-fifth novel. A trial lawyer for twelve years before the publication of his first novel, The Pardon, in 1994, he now serves a counsel at Boise Schiller & Flexner LLP. James lives in South Florida with his wife, three children, two cats, and a golden retriever named Max who has no idea he's a dog.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780062791979
ISBN-10: 0062791974
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Grippando, James
Hersteller: Harperluxe
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: James Grippando
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.05.2019
Gewicht: 0,923 kg
Artikel-ID: 109086652