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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as. Books by John Grisham (Author of A Time to Kill) Books by John Grisham John Grisham Average rating 3.95 5,873,934 ratings 219,323 reviews shelved 9,321,319 times Showing 30 distinct works. ' John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers' - Telegraph Description for A Time to Kill Paperback. 'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett 'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult This legal thriller tells the story of a father. 'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent A Time to Kill is Grishams debut novel, and it was inspired by a real-life case he had worked on as a lawyer. Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY. The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career.īut it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.

A national media circus descends on Clanton.Īs tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him.

In the small town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi, a ten-year-old African-American girl named Tonya Hailey is viciously raped and beaten by two white supremacists, James 'Pete' Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. 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.īut 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 Time to Kill is a 1988 legal thriller by John Grisham. John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L.

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