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Mar 07, 2019jimg2000 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A woman's refusal to tell the truth resulted in a murder committed by a World War II POW whose family was notified that he had been captured, missing and presumed dead BY MISTAKE. It was unfortunate that the truth did not come out until the very last chapter, making the reading experience less palatable as a thriller/mystery though the story centered on a murder. Unlike some of JG's recent books that are on current events as coal mining, human trafficking, Tappacola Nation casino (corruption), this book is on the hellish conditions of an old war and the social life dictated by the Methodist Church in the 1940s. (One of his earliest novel, the 1991 The Firm is on organized crime.) In Author's Note, Grisham provided his source of inspirations for this novel, a true mystery and the Bataan Death March. (see Quotes.)