As one gets into the latter chapters, it starts to look like Jake can’t get his client off the charges.

Grisham has set himself quite a plot to resolve.

Jake seems to be emotionally un-impacted by the event, not only because he refuses to press charges but blithely la-di-das through his life without a concern in the world for the possibility of more retribution, not only for himself but his wife and young daughter. In once scene he’s attacked by two men who beat the living crap out of him, sending him to the hospital. Jake Brigance goes through a lot of changes but they seem to be ripples, not waves, in his life. Where’s the editor? And why didn’t one of them catch Grisham referring to the main character as Jack on page 44? I know it’s a good idea to recapitulate some salient points as plot reminders for the reader, but Grisham almost seems to have forgotten he had already written about the subject. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey) and Sycamore Row, A Time for Mercy is an unforgettable thriller you won't be able to put down.Even worse, the author repeats descriptions of people or events over and over, sometimes almost verbatim. 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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