Scottsboro Stephen Baxter The night he stopped being

The night he stopped being a cop

gagged and dead in front of his television

Pierce's skills as a computer entrepreneur allow him to trace Lilly's last days with some precision

with a wonderful range of characters desperately striving to survive as the battle sweeps over them

Scottsboro Stephen Baxter The night he stopped beingShortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, a novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys. Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling. Alabama, 1931. A freight train is stopped in Scottsboro, nine black youths are brutally arrested and, within