Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back in his toughest case ever.A COMMUNITY SEEKING JUSTICE. A LAWYER FIGHTING FOR TRUTH
Drew Gamble is a teenage cop killer.
He's now the most hated person in Clanton, Mississippi. He's adamant he shot the officer in self-defence. The town believes it was murder.
Everyone expects him to be sentenced to death. It falls to Clanton's most famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to defend Drew against impossible odds.
And anything can happen when Jake Brigance is on the defence
350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER
Read Morea master of plotting and pacing . . . suspenseful - New York TimesA new Grisham legal thriller is always an event, but this one is exceptional as the author is returning to Jake Brigance, the hero of his very first book, A Time To Kill . . . There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance - they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat - Daily MailGrisham, as always, delivers legal suspense in spades - Irish IndependentGrisham has the knack of lighting a slow-burning fuse that has readers gasping for the coming big bang of courthouse fireworks - Peterborough Telegraphclassic Grisham - Irish Examiner