Fifteen Days to an Execution: A Second Chance at Eternal Life is a stunning novel about life and death. In search of an experimental drug to save his own deteriorating life, Reverend Harold Johnson looks for extra ways to support his family. Taking a job on death row at a federal prison, he grows fond of one of the two men set to die by execution. Feeling morally responsible to change the non-believer’s heart and grant him eternal life, the reverend valiantly tries to convert the murderous assassin Turk Vanhel to Christianity. Due to the reverend’s failing health, he is advised that these stressful activities could threaten his health and be fatal. But while pursuing his spiritual mission, he fails to realize that Turk is possessed of a split personality, one that refuses to be transformed to into anything loving.

Called “brilliantly devastating” in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, this award-winning, mesmerizing novel, based on the chilling true story of the last execution in Denmark’s history, asks a question that plagues a small Danish town: does a fifteen-year-old boy deserve to be put to death? On February 22, 1853, a fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson is prepared to be executed on Gallows Hill. The master carpenter comes to measure Niels for his coffin. The master baker bakes bread for the spectators. The messenger posts the notice of execution in the town square. The poet prepares his best pen to record the events as they unfold. A fly, Niels’s only companion in the cell, buzzes. A dog hovers by his young master’s window. A young girl hovers too, pitying the boy. The executioner sharpens his blade. This remarkable, wrenching story is told with the alternating perspectives of eleven different bystanders—one per hour—as the clock ticks ever closer to the moment when the boy must face his fate. Niels Nielson, a young peasant, was sentenced to death by beheading on the dubious charges of arson and murder. Does he have the right to live despite what he is accused of? That is the question the townsfolk ask as the countdown begins. With strong social conscience, piercing intellect, and masterful storytelling, Jesper Wung-Sung explores the age-old question: who determines who has the right to live or die?

"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

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