description: Three CDs, 3 hrs.Performance by Michael BeckIn 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: Mack Loyd Crowell, Mickey Mouse (A Time to Kill), Lucien Wilbanks, Ethel Twitty, DeWayne Looney, James Willard, Jake Brigance, Billy Ray Cobb, Clyde Sisco, Dr. W.T. Bass, Stump Sisson, Tonya Hailey, Freddy Cobb, Judge Omar Noose, Harry Rex Vonner, Bo Marsharfsky, Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, Wanda Womack, Carl Lee Hailey, Rufus Buckley, Ozzie Walls, Ellen Roark, Ollie Agee
genres: Thriller, Novels, Adult Fiction, Crime, Suspense, Legal Thriller, Adult, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 790783
places: Clanton, Ford County, Mississippi
series: Jake Brigance
publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group