by John Grisham · ROBERT LAFFONT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221104934
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«Le Contrat» is the legal thriller by John Grisham, published in 2008 by Robert Laffont in paperback (411 pages, in French).
After a verdict convicts Krane Chemical of poisoning a town's water supply, its owner, Carl Trudeau, prepares the appeal by manipulating the Mississippi Supreme Court. His instrument is Ron Fisk, a naive family man who accepts funding for his judicial candidacy until he discovers the price of his complicity.
This edition belongs to the Best-Sellers collection. The novel, originally published as The Appeal, features a translation by Johan-Frédérik Hel-Guedj.
For readers of legal thrillers and courtroom suspense, especially those who enjoy plots of corruption, power, and manipulation within the justice system.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
