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The multi-million copy bestselling thriller that introduced Jake Brigance to Clanton

This is the book that launched the giant Grisham, that became the film, and that has now inspired a sequel, Sycamore Row

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THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
John Grisham´s first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey

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.

But 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. A national media circus descends on Clanton.

As tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. It´s the kind of case that could make a young lawyer´s career.

But it´s also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.

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John Grisham is the author of thirty-five bestselling novels, the international number one non-fiction debut The Innocent Man and a series of short stories entitled Ford County. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virgina and Mississippi.

His website is www.johngrisham.co.uk

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