“If ever there was a dead man, it was Eroy Brown, a black convict who killed two white prison guards. The story of [Craig] Washington’s successful three-trial defense of Brown should be a book and a movie. This one is going to live as a Gettysburg in legal history.”
—Molly Ivins
“Concise, clearly written, and suspenseful. . . . The sensational Eroy Brown case has been waiting for a book for more than twenty years, and now it has one. Berryhill’s take on the prison homicides and the remarkable trials is comprehensively researched and well-contextualized in the history of Texas prisons and state politics.”
—Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
“Michael Berryhill is a very gifted storyteller, and this is a very powerful story.”
—Gary M. Lavergne, author of Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
