A call at your expense. The story of a lawyer who saved from the death penalty of those whom no one believed

Having received a prestigious education, the young lawyer Brian Stevenson begins to help the convicts on the death penalty. His clients are a homeless girl who accidentally sets fire to the building. A teenager who shot his mother’s cohabitant after brutal beatings. The owner of a sawmill, who has one hundred percent alibi, but black skin color and in the past is an illegitimate connection with a white woman. Behind their crimes are severe childhood, poverty, mental illness, fatal accident, racial prejudice, or simply false accusations. Brian will have a difficult struggle for freedom and justice against an indifferent and often cruel machine of justice.
Book of the year according to numerous media. Winner of 5 literary awards. A film adaptation in 2019 with the participation of Hollywood stars