Stephen King's novel The Green Mile and its audiobook adaptation. The audiobook version is narrated by Frank Muller and is highly rated by listeners. The story is set in Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the Great Depression, where a prison guard, Paul Edgecombe, encounters John Coffey, a man wrongly convicted of a heinous crime, and discovers that Coffey possesses a unique and profound gift. The sources also highlight the novel's themes of empathy, retribution, and the complexities of good and evil.