The Guardians by John GrishamMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
In this latest John Grisham tale, Cullen Post is a lawyer/Priest who is a part of Guardian Ministries, a not-for-profit specializing in freeing wrongfully convicted people from prison. It is mainly about Quincy Miller, an African American man who has spent the last twenty-three years in a Florida prison after conviction for murder.
No matter your position on the rightness or wrongness of the death penalty, I think this story is one any reader can relate too. As is the case with his first several books, John Grisham is a master at bringing to light both the humanity and inhumanity of man. I think "The Guardians" is my favorite of these efforts, thus far. The characters are ones I can relate too, and the circumstances of Quincy Miller's murder conviction present both a past and current portrait of "the old South's" style of justice, if you will.
Suffice it to say, I loved this book. Perhaps I should have waited before writing this because all of the emotions it evokes are still on free range and free fall in my head. This one will stay with me for a long time to come, I think. It will also be a reread for me, for certain.
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