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2000s: Sometimes Death Row might be the safest place a man can be…
The Last Mile
What you need to know before your trail
Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America’s most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents.
But not everyone thinks he’s guilty. Or at least they’re not sure. Amos Decker, a newly appointed special agent with the FBI, has just found out that someone else has confessed to the murders. So, he decides to look into the case. There’s a few things that just don’t add up.
Then there are things which add up all too well but it’s not the result that Amos or his team were expecting. It’s what they do next that counts. For it’s not just one man’s life at stake.
Death Row or Death itself might just claim a man before too long
Travel Guide
Tour of the highest security prisons in the USA
Starting with the most infamous, well-known, most used – term it what you will. The Texas State Penitentiary is the Death Row of prisons and where the novel opens since Melvin Mars is being held here. “Texas executed more inmates thatn any other state, over five hundred in just the last thirty years” Once it used to be “Old Sparky”the electric chair. Now it’s lethal injection. “Either way you were still dead”
Being taken out of Death Row is unheard of. Being released from Death Row even less so, and no-one quite knows what to do when someone else confesses to the murders.
Holman Prison Alabama
Montgomery is held here.
The place where the murders took place is remote farmland, a car on the side of a road, a remote house murders which take place and might not have been noticed if other events had not taken place. This is deep southern America where the prisons are the biggest scars on a fairly remote landscape, where justice for one man on death row takes the reader to Alabama, Mississippi and Washington DC. This becomes a cross state case, a trail for justice which leads to the highest echelons of society and deep into the darkest and most shameful parts of US history.
The town of Cain, Mississippi is fictional but the events there could be based on the very real events which took place on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Read this article but be aware it will give the plot away
Streetview Maps
A) Texas - Death Row
D) Washington DC - The FBI Buildings
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Last Mile (Amos Decker 2)
Author/Guide: David Baldacci Destination: Texas, Alabama Mississippi, Washington DC Departure Time: 2000s, 1960s
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