Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...
From the Hardcover edition.
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評分There is nothing more true than that all the things of the world have a limit to their existence. As to the outrage aroused by Yao Jiaxin’s case, it died out inevitably at the moment of his execution. It sounds a little bit counter-intuitive, but people s...
評分There is nothing more true than that all the things of the world have a limit to their existence. As to the outrage aroused by Yao Jiaxin’s case, it died out inevitably at the moment of his execution. It sounds a little bit counter-intuitive, but people s...
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