num_pages: 784
description: Before The Firm and   The Pelican Brief made him a superstar,  John Grisham wrote this riveting story of  retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a  Doubleday hardcover edition. 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: 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: 790874
places: Clanton, Ford County, Mississippi
series: Jake Brigance
publisher: Random House