'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 Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY. The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. 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. _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. 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 me. John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L.
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