“Did it really matter if he was sixteen or sixty? It certainly didn’t matter to Stu Kofer, whose stock seemed to rise by the hour,” writes Grisham of local opinion about giving Drew the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately for the kid in a place where uniforms are worshipped, Stu was a well-liked cop. He’s done terrible things to her children, too-and now her 16-year-old boy, Drew, puts an end to the terror. One night, coming home in a foul mood with a blood alcohol count more than triple the legal limit, he breaks his live-in girlfriend’s jaw. He drinks way too much and likes to brawl. A small-town Mississippi courtroom becomes the setting for a trademark Grisham legal tussle. 'When Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating' Mirror 'A superb, instinctive storyteller' The Times 'Storytelling genius. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey) and Sycamore Row, A Time for Mercy is an unforgettable thriller you won't be able to put down. 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. As the trial begins, it seems there is only one outcome: the gas chamber for Drew. Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case but he's the only one with enough experience to defend the boy. 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. But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. 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.

suspenseful' - New York Times CAN A KILLER EVER BE ABOVE THE LAW? Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat' - Daily Mail 'A master of plotting and pacing. 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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