A Time to Kill
Edition: Reprint (27)
Publisher: Island Books
Published: 1992-07
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780440211723
Copyright date: 1989
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 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 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....
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