![]() ![]() 'Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller' - The Times 'John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers' - Telegraph 'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett 'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult 'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career.īut it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. A national media circus descends on Clanton.Īs tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal.īut when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. ![]() John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. ![]()
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