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Number-one best-selling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.
"A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case." (USA Today)
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son - a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren’t shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family - was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers every minute.
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- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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On October 14, 1943, 600 Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war. In this edition of Escape from Sobibor, fully updated in 2012, Richard Rashke tells their stories
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Rashke put a face to the good and the bad!
- De As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands en 06-23-14
De: Richard Rashke
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The Color of Justice
- De: Ace Collins
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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1964: Justice, Mississippi, is a town divided. When attorney Coop Lindsay agrees to defend a Black man accused of murdering a White teenager, the bribes and death threats don't intimidate him. 2014: To some, the result of the trial still feels like a fresh wound even 50 years later, when Coop's grandson arrives in Justice seeking answers to the questions unresolved by the trial that changed his family's legacy.
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Awful
- De PATTY C. en 12-06-23
De: Ace Collins
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Miracles and Massacres
- True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
- De: Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Glenn Beck
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.The things you've never learned about our past will shock you. For example, the reason why gun control is so important to government elites can be found in a story about Athens. Not the city in ancient Greece, but the one in 1946 Tennessee.
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Makes History Very Interesting
- De Sher from Provo en 12-17-13
De: Glenn Beck
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The Onion Field
- De: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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Haunting
- De Avalon en 03-03-13
De: Joseph Wambaugh
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The Immigrants
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters. And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters, since it is the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the 20th century.
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Narration style kills the story.
- De Glynis en 11-27-14
De: Howard Fast
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Above the Law
- De: J.F. Freedman
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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In a remote northern California town, a huge task force from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducts a raid on the stronghold of one of the biggest drug-dealing rings in the country. During the raid, the infamous, reclusive leader of the ring, Reynaldo Juarez, is shot and killed - despite direct orders from the Attorney General that he is to be taken alive at any cost because of his immense value to the government as a witness in other drug cases.
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Good Book great ending
- De shelley en 04-10-14
De: J.F. Freedman
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Behind Enemy Lines
- The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
- De: Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army.
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Amazing story of a fighter and survivor
- De Magalie Busch en 05-06-19
De: Marthe Cohn, y otros
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Getting Life
- An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
- De: Michael Morton
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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On August 13, 1986, just one day after his 32nd birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed - and the Williamson County Sherriff's office in Texas wasted no time in pinning her murder on Michael, despite an absolute lack of physical evidence. Michael was swiftly sentenced to life in prison for a crime he had not committed
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A must read
- De Kevlar314 en 04-23-15
De: Michael Morton
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Picking Cotton
- Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
- De: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Erin Torneo, Ronald Cotton
- Narrado por: Richard Allen, Karen White
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.
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Listen for the story not the writing
- De Professor Sombrero en 06-13-09
De: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, y otros
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Soldiers and Slaves
- American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
- De: Roger Cohen
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II.
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Soldiers and Slaves
- De Hilda en 01-29-09
De: Roger Cohen
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Worthy Brown's Daughter
- De: Phillip Margolin
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Matthew Penny, a young lawyer, arrives on the frontier with nothing but shattered dreams. Unable to face the memories that await back home, he joins the handful of lawyers practicing in Portland, Oregon - which in 1860 is just a riverfront town in a state less than a year old. Worthy Brown, a slave from Georgia, journeys west with his master, Caleb Barbour, who promises to reward Worthy and his daughter, Roxanne, with their freedom if they help him establish a homestead in Oregon. When Barbour reneges on his pledge, Worthy's hope for a fresh start with his child is destroyed.
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Based on a true story
- De Jean en 02-07-14
De: Phillip Margolin
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The Boys from Biloxi
- A Legal Thriller
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Michael Beck
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars.
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Long and boring
- De ATM en 10-20-22
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The Broker
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In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.
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Grisham wins a bet.
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Witness to a Trial
- A Short Story Prequel to The Whistler
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A judge’s first murder trial. A defense attorney in over his head. A prosecutor out for blood and glory. The accused, who is possibly innocent. And the killer, who may have just committed the perfect crime.
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Mislead
- De Anne en 11-05-16
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The Litigators
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- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
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The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book". Maybe that's why, after more than 20 years of consecutive number-one New York Times best sellers, a new novel by America's favorite storyteller is still a major publishing event.
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Not Totally Grisham
- De Pamela Harvey en 11-01-11
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The Firm
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For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer Mitch McDeere couldn’t refuse: a position at a law firm where the bucks, billable hours, and benefits are over the top. It’s a dream job for an up-and-comer—if he can overlook the uneasy feeling he gets at the office. Then an FBI investigation into the firm’s connections to the Mafia plunges the straight and narrow attorney into a nightmare of terror and intrigue. With no choice but to pit his wits, ethics, and legal skills against the firm’s deadly secrets—if he hopes to stay alive…
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It Is A Great Story, But Not A Great Undertaking
- De Glen en 05-04-11
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The Guardians
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In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo’s.
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Is Grisham getting serious about writing again?
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The Boys from Biloxi
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars.
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Long and boring
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In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.
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Grisham wins a bet.
- De Bull en 01-18-05
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Witness to a Trial
- A Short Story Prequel to The Whistler
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A judge’s first murder trial. A defense attorney in over his head. A prosecutor out for blood and glory. The accused, who is possibly innocent. And the killer, who may have just committed the perfect crime.
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Mislead
- De Anne en 11-05-16
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The Litigators
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
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The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book". Maybe that's why, after more than 20 years of consecutive number-one New York Times best sellers, a new novel by America's favorite storyteller is still a major publishing event.
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Not Totally Grisham
- De Pamela Harvey en 11-01-11
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The Firm
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
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For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer Mitch McDeere couldn’t refuse: a position at a law firm where the bucks, billable hours, and benefits are over the top. It’s a dream job for an up-and-comer—if he can overlook the uneasy feeling he gets at the office. Then an FBI investigation into the firm’s connections to the Mafia plunges the straight and narrow attorney into a nightmare of terror and intrigue. With no choice but to pit his wits, ethics, and legal skills against the firm’s deadly secrets—if he hopes to stay alive…
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It Is A Great Story, But Not A Great Undertaking
- De Glen en 05-04-11
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The Guardians
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In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo’s.
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The Testament
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Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor. Returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder.
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Best Grisham Ever
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The Confession
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
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An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
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Not Your Mother's Grisham
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The Racketeer
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Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.... Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.
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Garbage
- De cristina en 11-29-12
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Camino Island
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- Narrado por: January LaVoy
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Priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen in a daring heist; a young woman recruited to recover them, and a beach-resort bookseller who gets more than he bargained for - all in one long summer on Camino Island.
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Grisham wrote this?
- De Dan en 06-13-17
De: John Grisham
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The Rooster Bar
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
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Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.
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Story=Terrible
- De Amazon Customer en 11-04-17
De: John Grisham
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Sooley
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
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In the summer of his 17th year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true.
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Wow! Just wow!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-28-21
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The Appeal
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Michael Beck
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
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And the ending?
- De RJT en 01-31-08
De: John Grisham
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A Time to Kill
- De: John Grisham
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- Duración: 16 h y 47 m
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Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a 10-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle - and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For 10 days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own....
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Nobody will read this review
- De Alicia en 08-18-16
De: John Grisham
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The Chamber
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In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm, 26-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances - except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. One secret could save Sam Cayhall's life...or cost Adam his.
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One of Grisham's best
- De Ed en 09-23-08
De: John Grisham
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The Partner
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
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Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life.
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A minor peeve...
- De N. Ekim en 01-29-14
De: John Grisham
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Gray Mountain
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Catherine Taber
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The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track - until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about.
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So Disappointing
- De David Shear en 10-22-14
De: John Grisham
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The Associate
- A Novel
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Erik Singer
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.
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Good, but not nearly as good as The Firm"
- De JoAnn en 02-03-09
De: John Grisham
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- Judith
- 10-25-18
Depressing
The story is set slightly after the Great Depression, and boy, is that foreshadowing at its best. This book took me from a profound sadness to an even deeper depression. In words from The Scarlet Letter, “A lie is never good.” The story on several occasions mentions Faulkner and several of his novels, and in fact this work is characteristic of Faulkner’s work: tragic characters facing no win situations with no redemption in sight. Stay away from this unless you are a glutton for misery a la “As I Lay Dying” or “The Sound and the Fury.”
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- Pat
- 10-27-18
An Intereresting Diversion for Grisham
Although the book is a tad too long and digesses in WWII history for a bit too long, as well, it's a fine bit of work that sustains interest throughout. Unlike a lot of those who previously reviewed this book here I had no trouble getting through the 17.5 hours of listening without problem at all. In a Shakespearean sort of way, this book is a tragedy, a continuing descent into a set of problems the characters have to live through, suffer through and finally live with as the book comes to its very troubling and surprising ending. I'd never re-read it but i'm glad I had the chance to plow avidly through it this once.
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- Rum Runner
- 10-26-18
It IS John Grisham-Perhaps It Is NOT For Everybody
Sycamore Row remains one of my favorite books ever. It seems like JG wanted or needed to revisit this wildly popular novel. There are some undeniable similar threads in "The Reckoning". I did not find the work depressing at all. Others obviously did. I enjoyed the pictures JG paints with his literary skills. I am a Vietnam vet, and my father, grandfather and daughter served in the Navy. In 1942 Dad was a WWII submariner in the Asiatic Fleet. When Japan invaded the Philippines, he was sick with food poisoning in a Manila hospital. His boat, USS S-39 left Manila in a hurry, and Dad left the hospital under duress. He spent a brief time with Philippine Guerrillas and eventually joined another crew for the duration of the war. His brother's ship USS Langley was bombed in the Java Sea and Uncle Jim, whom I never got to know, was reported lost at sea, presumed dead. So you see, this book really captured my interest. I lived a little of my ancestor's lives through this novel.
I digress . . . . all that aside, I enjoyed the way Grisham presented the book in its parts. Pete Banning was a strong and resilient character that reminded me of Unbroken's Louis Zamperini. Yes, I had a idea of what the climax included, however the author kept much a surprise until the end. Speaking of endings, I wanted more closure, a bit of detail on the next year or two. I thought the principals, soldiers, sisters, fathers and mothers, girl friends, farm workers, sheriffs, judges, lawyers and Japanese Bataan Death March guards were all well developed.
Some parts may be on the dark side, and this book may not be for everyone. However, Mr Grisham has had characters leap from windows to their deaths (The Testament), hang themselves (Sycamore Row), and die other terrible ways. It is not just about the court room any more. I enjoyed the book, and was glad to finally have another JG novel in my near complete collection. So with Audible's generous return policy, why don't you take a chance and treat yourself to "The Reckoning".
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- Foxyknoxy_atx
- 05-15-20
Worst ending ever
I really got into this book and was constantly surprised by the twists and turns. The historical WW II recollections about the Philippines was so interesting. Sadly, the ending was sooo depressing and left me sorry that I spent so much time on this book.
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- John Beagle
- 08-09-19
Soldier's View of the Bataan Death March
The plot line wasn't all that interesting but the story about death marches, torture and camps was gripping. Grisham is a great story teller and this was no exception. The view from inside a death march was so real, educational, so horrendous, so spellbinding you feel as you were there.
The overall story was very sad and just good, but not great.
Oh, and there was a surprise ending. So you need to read to the end. When you think you have it all figured out you realize you were wrong.
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- mydog&me_83
- 07-26-19
Best book I’ve ever read or listened to
I’ve listened to this book twice in its entirety and loved it just as much the 2nd time around. No surprise mr Grisham is an outstanding writer and story teller. Highly recommend this one!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-07-20
GOOD PEOPLE CAN MAKE BAD DECISIONS
You can tell that Grisham is a lawyer. This one covers several important legal issues. But it is heart-wrenching. An act of violence is brought on by a bad decision. The rest is disaster- for the actor and everyone else. As the daughter of a World War II veteran, it pained me to hear what happens to this war hero. As a lawyer, I understand the workings of the American tort system. Bad decisions often lead to unintended consequences and hurt the people we love the most.
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- Karen K.Cunningham
- 11-03-18
Best Grisham in a long time
Engrossing story. I enjoyed the WWII history and, of course, Grisham’s understanding of the South. But the story was one of his best. I sat in my car at work and home to get a little more listening in.
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- K. Roberts
- 11-27-18
read it!
audio equivalent of a page burner. Depiction of WW 11 difficult, but matches what uncles endured.
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- Margie Burrows
- 11-16-18
Grisham never disappoints
Kept me guessing. Why did he do it?
A time period in the South that I am glad I missed.
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