A Time to Kill

Hardcover, 425 pages

English language

Published April 15, 1989 by Wynwood Press.

ISBN:
978-0-922066-72-8
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OCLC Number:
55752946

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Intricate plotting, whirlwind pacing and behind-the-scenes authenticity made John Grisham's legal thriller The Firm a runaway best seller. Now he presents us with a masterfully drawn, fever-pitched courtroom drama of vengeance and retribution.

On a spring afternoon in Clanton, Mississippi, when 10-year-old Tonya Hailey should have been attending to childlike things, two rednecks subjected her to a rape and beating so savage it would leave her scarred forever. Days later, unable to contain his grief and rage, her father, Carl Lee Hailey, took revenge against Tonya's attackers. Armed with an M-16 rifle, he pumped them full of bullets in a bloody courthouse massacre. To some, it was justice; to others, murder.

Faced with the grim prospect of the gas chamber, Carl Lee sought help from Jake Brigance, a young, ambitious attorney whose adrenaline surged as he took on Carl Lee's defense. It was a case that was attracting national attention …

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