A noble pursuit. A deadly result.Reporter Matt Cowart has seen this before, a letter from a Death Row inmate pleading innocence. Sure, they're all innocent. Young girls are raping and killing themselves all the time. But the more Cowart digs into the case of Robert Earl Ferguson, the more he believes that, as a black man, Ferguson is a victim of hate and prejudice, and that the wrong man is going to be executed.
Cowart lets fly a series of hard-hitting investigative articles that ultimately not only free Ferguson, but win Cowart a Pulitzer. He's a hero, a celebrity, a big-hearted guy-- who has unwittingly set in motion a scenario of horror and death...
- ISBN10 0751500755
- ISBN13 9780751500752
- Publish Date 24 June 1993 (first published 6 February 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 594
- Language English