Name: A Time to Kill
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Author: John Grisham
ISBN: 9780385470810

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Grisham

Publisher

Doubleday Books

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

496

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.84 kg.

ISBN

0385470819

ISBN13

9780385470810

Synopsis "A Time to Kill "

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this searing courtroom drama featuring the beloved Jake Brigance. "John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today."--The Philadelphia InquirerThe life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless white men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime--until the girl's father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life--and then his own. Don't miss any of John Grisham's gripping books featuring Jake Brigance: A TIME TO KILL - SYCAMORE ROW - A TIME FOR MERCY - SPARRING PARTNERS

John Grisham

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John Grisham is the author of forty-eight books that have consecutively become number 1 on the US bestseller lists and have been translated into almost fifty languages. His most recent works include The Guardians, The Reckoning, The Whistler, and The Tumor, which is being adapted as a series by HBO. Grisham has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction twice and has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. When he is not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two organizations dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people. Many of his novels explore deeply ingrained issues in the American justice system. John lives on a farm in Virginia.

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