The Last Mile

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: Reprint

Description: 420 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Melvin Mars, One Of America's Promising Football Stars, Is On Death Row For The Murder Of His Parents, When Someone Else Confesses To The Murder?

Publishers Description: Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when hes granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Marss case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both mens families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth.The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars--guilty or not--a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison And why nowBut when a member of Deckers team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger--and more sinister--than just one convicted criminals life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.

ISBN: 9781447277835