num_pages: 515
description: Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. 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 men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his 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, Dr. W.T. Bass, DeWayne Looney, Ozzie Walls, Ethel Twitty, Jake Brigance, Mickey Mouse (A Time to Kill), Freddy Cobb, Ellen Roark, Carl Lee Hailey, Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, Judge Omar Noose, Harry Rex Vonner, Billy Ray Cobb, James Willard, Rufus Buckley, Bo Marsharfsky, Ollie Agee, Stump Sisson, Tonya Hailey, Clyde Sisco, Lucien Wilbanks, Wanda Womack
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction, Crime, Legal Thriller, Suspense
ratings_count: 790873
places: Clanton, Ford County, Mississippi
series: Jake Brigance
publisher: Island Books