Paul Edgecombe is a former prison supervisor at Cold Mountain Penitentiary in Louisiana, now living out his days in a nursing home. But his memories still return — again and again — to the year 1932. To the Green Mile.
Back then, “E Block” held inmates awaiting death. Among them was a newcomer: John Coffey — a towering man convicted of the rape and murder of twin girls. But something about him didn’t add up. Gentle. Childlike. Mysterious.
Paul begins to doubt Coffey’s guilt, but how do you save a man already walking the Green Mile — the final stretch to the electric chair?
A deeply emotional and unforgettable novel about justice, humanity, and the miraculous.
