About Me
A senior accounting and IT professional living an ordinary life in Plymouth, Massachusetts, James is called for jury duty in a case that has already attracted national attention. What begins as an obligation quickly becomes something far more difficult: twelve strangers must decide a question that carries consequences they cannot undo.
Eleven to One: Why I Held Out
Eleven to one.
James is the one.
As the deliberations continue, he becomes increasingly convinced that the other jurors are overlooking something important. They listen. They argue. They reconsider. They vote again.
Still eleven to one.
A note about the novel
Eleven to One: Why I Held Out is a work of fiction inspired by publicly reported real events.
The underlying criminal case and certain publicly reported facts are real. The novel itself is not a transcript, documentary, or factual reconstruction.
James Brand and the other jurors are fictional characters. Their private thoughts, conversations, deliberations, relationships, actions, and reactions are invented. Other scenes, dialogue, details, and events have been imagined or fictionalized for purposes of the novel.
Any interpretation of a real person's thoughts, motives, or private conduct is fictional and should not be taken as fact.