True Crime: The Novel

The Story

Two men meet on death row. One is a convicted murderer scheduled to die at midnight; the other is a cynical, self-destructive journalist who races the clock to prevent the law from making the ultimate mistake.True Crimeis a newspaperman's minute-by-minute account of his race over the course of nine hours to find evidence that will exonerate the condemned man, and of that man's increasingly desperate struggle to hold on.