"Powerful...Compelling...Katzenbach is a skilled storyteller who knows how to set up the kind of big and small questions that make one want to keep turning the pages" CHICAGO TRIBUNE Now a Warner Bros. Motion Picture starring Sean Connery. At first report Matt Cowart doesn't believe the claims of innocence from Robert Earl Ferguson, Death Row inmate. But the more Coward digs into his case, the more he believes that, as a black man, Ferguson is a victim of hate and prejudice, and that the wrong man is going to be executed. Cowart lets fly a series of hard-hitting investigative articles that ultimately frees Ferguson and gets Cowart a Pulitzer Prize. He's a hero, a celebrity, a big-hearted guy--who has unwittingly set in motion a scenario of horror and death.... Editorial Reviews :
From Publishers Weekly
Psychological suspense master Katzenbach's provocative story tells of a lonely editorial writer who crusades for the freedom of an inmate who has--it seems--been wrongly accused of murder. A BOMC alternate in cloth.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-- Putting this book down will be a difficult task for any lover of crime tales and mysteries. From the first chapter, the challenge to discover the truth--and what to do with it--is clear and compelling. Miami newspaperman Matthew Cowart is established, successful, and no longer hitting the streets as a regular reporter. When he receives a letter from a death row inmate declaring his innocence and begging Cowart to investigate the case, his reporter instincts resurface and spur him on a course of action that creates the excitement in this well-crafted novel. Cowart discovers unsettling information about which he writes so compellingly that Robert Earl Ferguson is set free. Two detectives, whose work contributed to Ferguson's original conviction, express genuine outrage and frustration that a dangerous, guilty man has been turned loose on an unsuspecting public. Cowart eventually discovers, to his horror, that they were right all along: Ferguson is indeed a serial killer. Stalking the stalker and meting out a primitive justice beyond the reach of lawyers and courtrooms is the focus of the dynamic second half of the book. YAs who have not yet discovered Katzenbach's skill with a yarn will undoubtedly want to seek out his earlier three titles after reading this one.
- Carolyn E. Gecan, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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