Coffey's Hands

Its place in The Green Mile

Coffey's Hands is book 3 in the The Green Mile series. It follows The Mouse on the Mile. It is followed by The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix. See the full The Green Mile reading order.

Paul Edgecombe, head guard on E Block -- the death-row wing nicknamed 'the Green Mile' for its sickly-green linoleum -- narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle Black man convicted of murdering two young girls. Coffey turns out to possess a miraculous healing gift, and as Edgecombe and his fellow guards come to know him, the certainty of his guilt begins to crack even as his execution date approaches. Stephen King wrote The Green Mile as a serialized novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens…