A Time to Kill

Mass Market Paperback, 738 pages

English language

Published Jan. 25, 2013 by Arrow Books.

ISBN:
978-0-09-959075-0
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OCLC Number:
856187156

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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

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Subjects

  • Race relations
  • Trials (Murder)
  • Vigilantes
  • Crimes against
  • Fiction
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Investigation
  • African American girls
  • Legal stories

Places

  • Mississippi