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Sparring Partners: The acclaimed collection of crime stories from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

John Grisham

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THREE STORIES. THREE CRIMES. WILL JUSTICE PREVAIL?

Is the law always black and white? These stories show the shades of grey...

Jake Brigance has a choice to make: help an old friend who stole money from his clients or turn him over to the police?

Cody Wallace is three hours away from his execution. There will be no last-minute requests for mercy. But as the clock ticks down, will Wallace get his dying wish?

Kirk and Rusty Malloy are feuding lawyers and partners. As their business disintegrates, they turn to hotshot lawyer Diantha Bradshaw to help save them: but how much can they trust each other - and her?

350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER

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Praise for Sparring Partners

  • Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment - Irish IndependentGrisham is on vintage form - Financial TimesThese three novellas in a single volume show Grisham at his masterful best, exquisite evocations of the law though far from complimentary about lawyers . . . A minor masterpiece - Daily MailGrisham's work - always superior entertainment - is evolving into something more serious, more powerful, more worthy of his exceptional talent - The Washington PostA legal literary legend - USA Today

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John Grisham

John Grisham

Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill.

His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.

He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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