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year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the
streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a
smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every
turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the
color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American
war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his
home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. The
details of Ben's harrowing story--and his experiences with a remarkable man named
Abraham Cross--were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally
recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear
heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed
in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross's Trial is unlike any
story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck
speed of any Alex Cross novel. 
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