Zenith Man review: a surprisingly confessional Georgia courtroom tale
the true crime that's worth your time
You can see why Zenith Man, the first book from Georgia politician-turned-criminal defense attorney McCracken King Poston, Jr. (what a name, right?), is being marketed as “like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller” from the first chapter. With its small-town South setting, flawed but likable hero, flawed and hard-to-like defendant, and a narrative driven by events within the courtroom, it shares a lot of the same DNA as, say, A Time to Kill.
That’s the one with the film adaptation that contains this iconic San Jackson moment (please forgive the appearance of alleged sexual assailant Kevin Spacey in the clip), a line delivery that will be in film moment clip reels long after we’re all gone. There isn’t a moment of drama as high in Poston’s book, but there is a similar theme at its heart: what does a defense attorney do when the guy he’s representing makes your job as difficult as possible?
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