La Ligne verte

Paul Edgecombe, former prison chief guard in the 1930s, began writing his memoirs.He went back to the John Caffey case – the great black man with a blind eye, sentenced to death for rape and the murder of two girls – who covered the chronicle in 1932.The Green Line described a stifling and brutal universe, where distrust was the rule. No one left unharmed from this world-cut building, where a strange mouse tamed by a cajun arsonmane, the sadist Percy Wetmore, and Caffey, a prisoner without problem. Rather quickly convinced of the innocence of this man with supernatural powers, Paul would do everything to save him from the electric chair.On the borders of the black novel and the fantastic, this story is also a brilliant reflection on the death penalty.A book by Stephen King very different from his usuals in horror, terribly effective and disturbing.