description: 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...
language: English
title: A Time to Kill
titlecomplete: A Time to Kill
characters: DeWayne Looney, Harry Rex Vonner, Billy Ray Cobb, Mack Loyd Crowell, Carl Lee Hailey, Ethel Twitty, Bo Marsharfsky, Lucien Wilbanks, Wanda Womack, Tonya Hailey, Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, Ozzie Walls, Ellen Roark, Jake Brigance, James Willard, Clyde Sisco, Rufus Buckley, Judge Omar Noose, Stump Sisson, Ollie Agee, Dr. W.T. Bass, Mickey Mouse (A Time to Kill), Freddy Cobb
genres: Legal Thriller, Mystery, Adult, Adult Fiction, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 790799
places: Clanton, Ford County, Mississippi
series: Jake Brigance
publisher: Random House Audio