A Time to Kill
Edition: Reprint (43)
Publisher: Island Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 515
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 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...
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Notes: US/CAN