The Guardians

JOHN GRISHAM is the author of thirty-three novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

出版者:Doubleday

作者:John Grisham

页数:384

出版时间:2019-10-15

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780385544184

图书标签:英文原版悬疑美国2019书单小说

John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller–-with a twist.

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s.

Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister.

Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated.

They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought.

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读了一半读不下去了，文笔很一般，情节不诱人，实在找不到继续读下去的理由了……弃辽

I never knew much about and had much interested in wrongful conviction back then as a criminology student. But this book changed my opinion about it. A very good read and respect what they do.

an ordinary crime and law story, won't make you savor afterwards

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借侦探题材深刻反映美国种族和司法制度的深刻问题，主题十分深刻。故事上后半部分铺开各种线索之后却最终没有找到真凶，这个安排感觉有些虎头蛇尾，但是后记中提到故事的现实版就是如此，所以也可以算作作者现实主义的安排。期望能早日翻拍成电影。