The Decker Hilton

Dallas, 1969.

Nineteen-year-old Wes Pritchett is standing at his kitchen sink when a detective presses a cocked revolver to his forehead. Hours later he is locked inside the Dallas County Jail, the place the inmates call the Decker Hilton, for a crime he did not commit. What follows is almost seven months of fear and violence, and a slow, terrifying discovery: the jail is not only trying to take his freedom. It is taking his soul. An unlikely circle of men the world had written off begin to protect him, and a hard-won philosophy starts to change the way he sees everything. Then, at his lowest hour, Wes surrenders, and in a concrete cell in the middle of the night, he is met by a presence he can only describe as grace itself.

Told with the pace of a thriller and the heart of a testimony, The Decker Hilton is a true story about wrongful imprisonment: almost seven months held without a charge, and a freedom that had to be bought with a guilty plea. It is a story of unexpected friendship across a brutal racial divide, and of the hope that reaches us exactly where we are. For anyone who has ever felt too far gone to be reached, it is living proof that no one is.

Perfect for readers of Same Kind of Different as Me, The Shack, and Unbroken.