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A TIME TO KILL by GRISHAM JOHN

GRISHAM JOHN . Unknown Year . English

A Time To Kill is available in paperback. The book has 672 pages. The language of the book is English, and the author of the book is John Grisham. A ten-year old African American girl is brutally raped and beaten by two white racist drunken men. Inspite of committing such a heinous crime, the perpetrators remain unrepentant. This horrendous act unleashes mayhem in the town of Clayton, Mississippi where the story is set. Carl Lee, the father of the wronged girl, is driven into a mad rage and decides to take the law in his hands in order to bring justice to his daughter. Armed with an assault rifle, he sets out to avenge the gruesome crime committed on his daughter and kills the culprits. He is arrested and is to be tried for capital murder. This is a moving tale about a young defence lawyer, Jake Brigance, who decides to defend the black Vietnam war hero. The people of the town are divided in their opinion about the the crime committed by Carl. The book takes you through a journey of the lawyer’s struggle to save his client. Also at stake is the young attorney’s life. The novel was published in the year 1992 by RHUK. Key Features: The book sensitively explores the relationship between black and whites. It is a legal suspense thriller and keeps you on an edge at all times.

Categories: Crime

About the Author

John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Boys From Biloxi, The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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