The Confession by John Grisham

September 24, 2011, Tai Po, Hong Kong.

Paperback 2010, 515 pages.

This is a rather straightforward accounting of how an innocent person was executed and how the attempt to save him during the last few days failed.  The only suspense, so to speak, is whether Donte Drumm would be executed.  Thus this is an undramatic book by the usual Grisham standards.

One wonders whether the author had an anti-death penalty philosophy and thus used the story to illustrate his point.  Since I don't need much convincing on this point, I am okay with that.  My other observation is the last part of the novel basically was simply a straightforward accounting of what happens to the various characters in the novel.  As Grisham tends to have trouble finishing his novels anyway, this is to be expected, and is perhaps a technique he should use more often.

Overall an average, easy-to-read novel.