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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