The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination
plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington
D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission
to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else
dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When
President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war,
asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in
his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse.
The details of
Ben's harrowing story--and his experiences with a remarkable man named
Abraham Cross--were passed from generation to generation, until they
were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From
the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the
unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to
the world. Alex Cross's Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.
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The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse.
The details of Ben's harrowing story--and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross--were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross's Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel.