{"product_id":"the-holdout-a-novel","title":"The Holdout A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - One juror changed the verdict. What if she was wrong?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eThe Imitation Game\u003c\/i\u003e and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Night. . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ID Book Club Selection -\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"Exhilarating . . . a fiendishly slippery game of cat-and-mouse suspense and a provocative, urgent inquiry into American justice (and injustice) in the twenty-first century.\"--A. J. Finn, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex, law enforcement, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. It's an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed--until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock's innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty, a controversial decision that will change all their lives forever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jury, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya's hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence--by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the present-day murder investigation weaves together with the story of what really happened during their deliberation, told by each of the jurors in turn, the secrets they have all been keeping threaten to come out--with drastic consequences for all involved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48494127644927,"sku":"*R0104215*","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-holdout-a-novel","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}