A Calamity of Souls

A Calamity of Souls is a modern masterpiece, a court room drama set in 1968 in a divided Virginia, a fraught powder keg in the American south. A young, inexperienced white attorney, Jack Lee, and his client, Jerome Washington, a hardworking black man beloved by his family, is falsely accused of murder. Jerome is in a fight for his life in a courtroom where he has been condemned before the gavel hits. This page turner is resplendent, timely and surprising, written in glorious prose that will captivate and enthrall readers. Nothing in Jerome and Jack''s world is what it appears to be. There are secrets, and a shocking buried history among the families trapped in a legal system calcified in racism. In Baldacci''s hands, this story is personal and the reader feels its urgency. This lustrous, atmospheric novel takes us back and moves us forward in one riveting read. An instant classic from America''s favorite storyteller>

Product details

• Authors: David Baldacci, Baldacci David
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781035035601
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503560-1
• No. of pages: 621
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Thrillers / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Virginia, Crime and mystery fiction, c 1954 to c 1968 (era of the American Civil Rights Movement), c 2020 to c 2029, courtroom drama; criminal justice, courtroom drama; criminal justice; discrimination; racism