Author Description

Anthony Faison was a young Black man living in the crack cocaine-ridden housing projects of Crown Heights in Brooklyn. When a drug dealer and crack addict conspired to frame him, Anthony was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. During over a decade behind bars, he wrote more than 60,000 letters seeking help in clearing his name. One letter led to an unlikely friendship with Michael Race, a private investigator and former NYPD homicide detective in need of a similar manner of redemption. With the help of this determined ally, Anthony struggles to maintain hope, fighting to regain his freedom, fighting for a measure of justice.