EAN: 9781538767801

A CALAMITY OF SOULS - DAVID BALDACCI KARTONIERT...

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia  a racially-charged murder case sets a
duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their
wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1  New York Times 
bestselling author David Baldacci.        Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County 
Virginia  who has never done anything to push back against racism  until he decides to
represent Jerome Washington  a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly and wealthy
white couple. Doubting his decision  Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to
prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he
quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater
than the outcome of a murder trial.      Desiree DuBose is a Black lawyer from Chicago who has
devoted her life to furthering the causes of justice and equality for everyone. She comes to
Freeman County and enters a fractious and unwieldy partnership with Lee in a legal battle
against the best prosecutor in the Commonwealth. Yet DuBose is also aware that powerful outside
forces are at work to blunt the victories achieved by the Civil Rights era.       Lee and
DuBose could not be more dissimilar. On their own  neither one can stop the prosecution’s
deliberate march towards a guilty verdict and the electric chair.  But together  the pair fight
for what once seemed impossible: a chance for a fair trial and true justice.    Over a decade
in the writing  A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone
era  taking the reader through a world that will seem both foreign and familiar.

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