A Time to Kill
By: John Grisham
Edition: Arrow Reissue (1)
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9780099590750
Copyright date: 1989
Subjects: Race relations; Trials (Murder); Vigilantes; Crimes against; Fiction; Child sexual abuse; Investigation; African American girls; Legal stories
Description: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. A national media circus descends on Clanton.

As tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career.

But it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.
--back cover
Notes: Originally published: London: Century, 1989.