True Crime
By Andrew Klavan.
Filmed as True Crime
(1999), directed by Clint Eastwood.
Published by Dell.
First published 1995.
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0440224039
ISBN-13: 978-0440224037
Description:
In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in
a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett
drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a
shocking truth: a convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he
didn't commit.
In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also
out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to
the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store
clerk six years ago. But in a few hours –
if Steve Everett can't find the evidence to stop it – a needle is going to
pierce Frank Beachum's skin.
The killing machine is primed. The executioner
is waiting. And so is the priest. Now the clock is ticking down and the race is
on – between the reporter and his demons, between the system and its lethal
flaws, between the last innocent man and society's ultimate crime. . . .
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