守护者（约翰·格里森姆） The Guardians

基本信息

Format Paperback | 448 pages

Dimensions 106 x 190 x 28mm | 238g

Publication date 16 Jun 2020

Publisher Random House USA Inc

Imprint Anchor Books

ISBN10 052562094X

ISBN13 9780525620945

页面数据仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

#纽约时报畅销书

★一部经典的法律惊悚片，故事发生了巨大的反转。混合了强大的主题，如虚假监禁、死刑和法律制度如何显示偏见。" ——Associated Press

在佛罗里达州的西布罗克小镇，一位名叫基思-鲁索的年轻律师在一天深夜工作时被枪杀在办公桌前。凶手没有留下任何线索。没有证人，没有人有动机。但警方很快怀疑昆西-米勒，一个曾经是鲁索的客户的年轻黑人男子。

昆西被审判，被定罪，并被送入终身监禁。二十二年来，他在狱中苦苦挣扎，坚持自己的清白。但没有人听。他没有律师，在外面没有代言人。在绝望中，他给监护人事务部写了一封信，这是一个由库伦-波斯特经营的小型非营利组织，他是一名律师，也是一名圣公会牧师。

监护人每次只接受几个无罪的案件。卡伦-波斯特在全国各地与错误的定罪作斗争，并接受被系统遗忘的客户。然而，在昆西-米勒那里，他得到的东西远远超过了他的期望。强大而无情的人谋杀了基思·鲁索，他们不希望昆西·米勒被开释。

他们在22年前杀死了一名律师，他们将毫不犹豫地杀死另一名律师。

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A classic legal thriller--with a twist. - "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system shows prejudice." --Associated Press

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo's.

Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister.

Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated.

They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought.

Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

媒体评价

约翰·格里森姆是那种能在规定动作里拿高分的作家。当他让鲁迪律师说出“贪婪是一件很有意思的事情”时，其中的残酷意味就已悄然弥漫，而不管他为小说涂上怎样的蜂蜜色，都无法遮蔽那冷漠的世界里不断繁殖的贪婪与绝望。他很清楚，真相的幕布拉开就合不上了，哪怕是用尽好莱坞式的天真、决绝与爱情。

——赵松（作家）

这个社会有各种各样的律师，法律的形象某种程度上是由我们这些法律人的形象所构造的，正义也是通过每一个案件而得到阐述。每一个法律人或者有志于法律的人都可以阅读这个故事……法律人始终生活在各种诱惑之中，也见惯了那些黑暗和苦难，在这样一个晃动的社会中，或许我们该时刻思考，如何坚守自己并为众人带来光明。

——林维

作者简介

约翰·格里森姆（John Grisham），生于1955年，美国当代知名作家。自1988年出版首部小说《杀戮时刻》以来，约翰·格里森姆每年出版一部小说，他的作品长期居于《纽约时报》畅销榜前十名，被翻译成四十种语言，其中九部小说被改编为电影。曾获英国图书奖终身成就奖（2007）、美国国会图书馆创作成就奖（2009）和哈珀·李法律小说奖（2011，2014）等奖项。

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.

Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.