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  • A Time to Kill

  • By: John Grisham
  • Narrated by: Michael Beck
  • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Narrated by: Michael Beck
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Publisher's summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. A national media circus descends on Clanton.

As tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career.

But it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.

The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY.

'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent

'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult

©1992 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2005 Random House Audiobooks

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Yes. It gives one a great perspective on the unfortunate and unnecessary racial problems that are still being practised world wide.

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