A Time for Mercy
The addictive courtroom drama from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author
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4.3 • 358 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back in his toughest case yet.
A COMMUNITY SEEKING JUSTICE. A LAWYER FIGHTING FOR TRUTH.
Drew Gamble is a teenage cop killer.
He's now the most hated person in Clanton, Mississippi. He's adamant he shot the officer in self-defence. The town believes it was murder.
Everyone expects him to be sentenced to death. It falls to Clanton's most famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to defend Drew against impossible odds.
And anything can happen when Jake Brigance is on the defence.
💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER💥
Readers love A Time for Mercy:
'I couldn't put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Grisham is the king of trial plots' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'You've just got to keep reading' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Grisham at his best' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of bestseller Grisham's disappointing third outing for attorney Jake Brigance (after 2013's Sycamore Row), deputy sheriff Stu Kofer comes home one night in 1990 to the isolated house outside Clanton, Miss., he shares with his lover, Josie. In a drunken rage, Kofer falsely accuses Josie of infidelity, and knocks her unconscious. Kofer falls asleep after a half-hearted attempt to break into the room of Josie's 14-year-old daughter, Kiera, whom he has sexually abused. Josie's 16-year-old son, Drew, believes his unresponsive mother is dead, and fears Kofer will attack Kiera. After dialing 911 to report Josie's murder, Drew takes the sleeping lawman's service weapon and shoots him in the head. A judge taps Brigance to defend Drew after the teenager is charged with intentional homicide. As Brigance prepares his case, he learns a secret that he hopes will bolster his chances in court. The high-profile murder trial that follows, however, doesn't live up to the promise of the book's harrowing opening: the prosecuting attorney proves a weak opponent for Brigance, and the tepid courtroom proceedings fail to engage. This one's for Grisham diehards only.
Customer Reviews
Classic John Grisham
Action packed and un-put-downable.
Time for mercy
Very, very good read. Written in proper English. Well put together and very credible. I shall read more of the Authors works .
A time for mercy
It was all great