Jake's fierce com mitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line. Many in Clan ton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and disc overs that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deep ly divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a t imid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom d rama that The New York Times says is 'riveting' and 'suspenseful.' Clanton, Mississippi. 'A superb, instinctive storyteller' The Times 'When Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating' Mirror Jackson and Matthew McConaughey ) and Sycamore Row, A Time for Mercy is an unforgettable thriller you won't be able to put down.

Starring the same hero and setting that featured in John Grisham's multi-million-selling bestsellers A Time to Kill (adapted as a film starring Samuel L. But, as the town of Clanton discovers once again, when Jake Brigance takes on an impossible case, anything is possible. Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case but he's the only one with enough experience to defend the boy.Īs the trial begins, it seems there is only one outcome: the gas chamber for Drew.

In Clanton, Mississippi, there is no one more hated than a cop killer - but a cop killer's defence lawyer comes close. He picks up a gun and takes the law into his own hands. Her son, sixteen-year-old Drew, knows he only has this one chance to save them. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him.īut one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. suspenseful' - New York Timesĭeputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man.

It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat' - Daily Mail There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance - they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations. 'A new Grisham legal thriller is always an event, but this one is exceptional as the author is returning to Jake Brigance, the hero of his very first book, A Time To Kill . Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back, in his toughest case ever.

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