Bearing the Cross - Book One: Valparaíso (part 1) opens Dr. John M. Cobin's five-volume memoir of his wrongful conviction and the five years he spent in the Chilean prison system. In this first volume, the author recounts his arrest, trial, and the early months of incarceration in Valparaíso, documenting the conditions of confinement and the shock of entering an unjust justice system. Written with the same unflinching, first-person honesty that defines the entire series, this book documents the injustices, indignities, and vexations of the Chilean penal and prison system firsthand - the account of an Italian-Chilean citizen wrongfully convicted despite physical and forensic evidence of his innocence. John M. Cobin, public-policy economist, Baptist pastor, and author of twenty books, shares here the beginning of his personal odyssey - offering readers not just a chronicle of events but a meditation on faith, justice, and human resilience.
