From Our Editors
Ever wonder what happens in the jury room, where lawyers aren't heard and the judge is not welcome? Who controls a jury when the door is locked and the deliberations begin? In John Grisham's newest novel, readers will find out the answers to these questions. For, every jury has a leader--and the verdict belongs to that person
From the Publisher
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him.
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with
hundreds of millions of dollars at stake
beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course.
The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris
convinced he''s being watched. Soon they have to be
sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymousyoung woman
suggests she is able to predict the jurors''
increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being
manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And,
more important,why?
From the Jacket
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he''s being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymousyoung woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors'' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?
About the Author
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, John Grisham
dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he
didn''t have the right stuff, he shifted gears and majored in
accounting at Mississippi State University. He practiced law for
nearly a decade in Southaven and served in the state House of
Representatives until 1990. Inspired by the actual testimony in a
rape case, Grisham got up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several
hours of writing time before heading off to work. He spent three
years on A Time to Kill; it was eventually bought
by Wynwood press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and
published it in June 1988. The day after Grisham completed
A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel,
the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently
perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. Spending 47 weeks
on The New York Times bestseller list, The
Firm became the bestselling novel of 1991. Grisham lives
with his wife and their two children. The family splits their time
between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a
plantation near Charlottesville, VA. When he''s not writing,
Grisham devotes time to charitable causes. He also keeps up with
his greatest passion: baseball. The man who dreamed of being a
professional baseball player now serves as the local Little League
commissioner. The six ballfields he built on his property have
played host to over 350 kids on 26 Little League teams.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Hardcover
416 Pages, 6.41 x 9.51 x 1.34 IN
May 1, 1996
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
0385472943
9780385472944