The Ku Klux Klan surges back into action, and the town soon is roiled by controversy and violence. Jake defends a Black Vietnam veteran, Carl Lee Hailey, who executes the drug-addled rapists of his child on the steps of the courthouse in a small Mississippi town named Clanton.
Published nearly a quarter-century ago and set in the early to mid- 1980s, A Time to Kill was a sensational courtroom drama about race in the Deep South during a time of change. But even Grisham couldn’t resist the temptation to revisit the world of Jake Brigance, the cocky young lawyer at the center of the action in his breakthrough first novel, A Time to Kill. Warshawski, John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport) but by writing stories based on a fresh cast of characters nearly every time around. John Grisham has become one of the world’s best-selling authors of crime and suspense novels, not by creating a continuing series based on the exploits of a quirky hero-investigator (think Michael Connelly’s Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch, Sara Paretsky’s V.
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