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Nuremberg, Mississippi

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Nuremberg, Mississippi

De : Melvin E. Edwards
Lu par : Steve Knupp
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In 1965, in a small Mississippi town where order is prized and rules are followed without question, a man waits for a bus.

What happens next seems routine -- an arrest, a charge, a trial conducted according to the law. The paperwork is complete. The procedures are correct. The officials involved believe they are simply doing their jobs.

But beneath the surface of professionalism and politeness lies a deeper question: What happens when the law itself becomes the instrument of injustice?

Nuremberg, Mississippi follows Attorney Silas Thomas Thorn III, a man who has built his life on the belief that predictability is fairness and that the stability of the legal system depends on obedience to established rules. When a seemingly minor case begins to expose contradictions within that system, Thorn is forced into a moral reckoning that challenges everything he has trusted-his training, his community, and his own sense of duty.

As the proceedings unfold, the town's institutions -- courts, law enforcement, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens -- move forward with quiet confidence. No one raises their voice. No one breaks the rules. Yet step by step, the machinery of justice produces an outcome that feels increasingly difficult to defend.

Drawing inspiration from the moral questions raised during the post-World War II Nuremberg trials, the novel examines how harm can emerge not from hatred or malice, but from routine decisions made by reasonable people acting within a system designed to appear fair.
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