In Abraham's Burden, master storyteller Joseph Crew presents a frighteningly surreal but altogether probable world where an innocent man can be found guilty and executed because of prejudiced jurors, and not because of the evidence provided by the prosecution. When Helen Sparks, A Washington State congresswoman, and her lover turn up missing, the media focuses on the event around the clock. As a suspect is taken into custody and the trial gets underway, the public, caught up in a crescendo of fiery emotion, is all too ready to leap joyously to their feet the minute a guilty verdict brings the accused to his knees. And the accused, unable to provide an alibi because of an alcoholic blackout, wonders if he did indeed commit murder...