by John Grisham · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221073902
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In Clanton, Mississippi, young Tonya Hailey is brutally raped and tortured. In the middle of the trial, her father, Carl Lee, murders the two defendants with an assault rifle. His fate seems sealed: the gas chamber. Carl Lee is black and this happens in the deep south of the United States. Jake, a young white lawyer, brave and ambitious, decides to defend him. The Ku Klux Klan opposes and soon a whirlwind of hatred consumes the small town of Clanton. This novel, with autobiographical overtones, since the author was a young lawyer in Mississippi, admirably recreates the atmosphere of the southern United States, that mixture of red dust, humidity, carelessness and violence. With a unique art, John Grisham immerses the reader in the growing unease of a suspense that will not be resolved until the last page.
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.
