num_pages: 515
description: 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 justice into his own outraged hands.For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread throughout 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 (Jake Brigance #1)
characters: Mack Loyd Crowell, Bo Marsharfsky, James Willard, Tonya Hailey, Ethel Twitty, Ellen Roark, Jake Brigance, Freddy Cobb, Mickey Mouse (A Time to Kill), Wanda Womack, Billy Ray Cobb, DeWayne Looney, Dr. W.T. Bass, Ozzie Walls, Carl Lee Hailey, Ollie Agee, Rufus Buckley, Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, Stump Sisson, Clyde Sisco, Judge Omar Noose, Lucien Wilbanks, Harry Rex Vonner
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Legal Thriller, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 790855
places: Clanton, Ford County, Mississippi
series: Jake Brigance
publisher: Dell Pub Co