Books
by John Grisham
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Painted House
With A Painted House, Grisham
strikes out in a new direction.
As the author is quick to
note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," instead,
Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural
Arkansas in 1952.
It's harvest time on the
Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and
"hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades
this bucolic dream team.
But it's backbreaking work,
particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing
the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the
heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless
it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice." |
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Brethren
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Trumble is a minimum-security
federal prison, a "camp," home to
the usual assortment of
relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, tax
evaders, embezzlers, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five
lawyers. Three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from
Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day
in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle
cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes
dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They
are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money
is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong
victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and
the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over. |
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The
Testament
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billionaire one of the richest men in the US. He is also eccentric, reclusive,
confined to a wheelchair and looking for a way to die. His heirs, to no
one's surprise especially Troy's - are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley
is a high - octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast,
for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from
his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety,
good intentions, and resilient sense of humor. Returning to the real world
is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane
is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from
the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and went to live
and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil.
In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their
lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament. |
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A
Time to Kill
John Grisham truly believed in this
subject matter and wrote it from his heart.
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A white criminal lawyer in
a small southern town is appointed to a case that has gained national attention
defending an Afro-American father who was forced to take the law into his
own hands after his ten-year-old daughter's brutal murder. |
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Street Lawyer
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This time the lord of legal
thrillers dives deep into the world of the homeless, particularly their
barely audible legal voice in a world dominated by large, all-powerful
law firms. |
Our hero, Michael Brock, is
on the fast track to partnership at D.C.'s premier law firm, Sweeny &
Drake. His dream of someday raking in a million-plus a year is finally
within reach. Nothing can stop him, not even 90-hour workweeks and a failing
marriage - until he meets DeVon Hardy, a.k.a. "Mister," a Vietnam vet with
a grudge against his landlord and a few lawyers to fry. |
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The
Firm
The
major national bestseller and most talked about legal thriller since Turow's
Presumed Innocent is about a young man caught between the FBI and the Mob. |
Brimming with heart-pounding
suspense and legal intrigue, the novel that placed John Grisham on the
literary map forever changed the way the public looks at the law. In The
Firm, a young attorney is drawn to a successful law firm in Memphis where
the perks are good--but the secrets are deadly. |
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The
Client
Reggie
will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble
that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. |
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and
his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when a chance encounter
with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret:
the whereabouts of the most sought after dead body in America. Now Mark
is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to
cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who
has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break
all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him
quiet. |
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The
Pelican Brief by
John Grisham
The author of the runaway
bestseller The Firm delivers a riveting new legal thriller.
A young law student prepares
a brief based on nothing more than a legal shot in the dark after the assassination
of two Supreme Court Justices. But someone else reads her brief someone
willing to kill to destroy evidence of an unthinkable crime. |
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The
Chamber by
John Grisham
Twenty-six-year-old
Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking
it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.
From the author of The Firm,
The Client and The Pelican Brief comes the story of a Klansman, on death
row for a bombing and for the deaths of a civil rights activist's two sons,
who is mysteriously aided in his last appeal by a young lawyer in a major
firm -- why? |
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The
Rainmaker by
John Grisham
Combining
suspense, narrative momentum, and humor as only John Grisham can, The Rainmaker
provides another spellbinding, thrill-a-minute read.
Rudy Baylor, a new law school
graduate, once dreamed of the good life as a corporate attorney. Now he
faces joblessness and bankruptcy -- unless he can win an insurance case
against a heavyweight team of lawyers, a case that starts small but mushrooms
into a frightening war of nerve and legal skill that could cost Rudy not
only his future, but also his life. |
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The
Runaway Jury by
John Grisham
Who
controls a jury when the door is locked and the deliberations begin?
They are at the center of
a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane--12 men and women who have been investigated,
watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants
who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a
decision in the most explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent-setting
lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know
the truth -- that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. |
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The
Partner by
John Grisham
From the master of courtroom
drama comes the ultimate in suspense--The Partner, John Grisham's new spellbinding
novel.
Patrick Lanigan had a bright
future as a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. Then one cold
winter night, he was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death;
the casket they buried held nothing but his ashes. A short distance away,
Patrick watched his own burial, then fled. A fortune was stolen from his
ex-firm's offshore account. Patrick ran, covering his tracks the whole
way -- but not far enough or fast enough. It began when he disappeared.
But it really didn't start until they found him. |
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