# A Time to Kill

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**THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**  
**John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey  
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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.  
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**The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. Brigance returns in _SYCAMORE ROW_ and _A TIME FOR MERCY._**  
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**'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction'** - Jodi Picoult  
  
**'The best thriller writer alive'** - Ken Follett  
  
**'****John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers'** - _Telegraph_  
  
**'Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller'** - _The Times_  
  
**'Grisham's storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own.'** - _Daily Record_  
  
**'Masterful - when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating'** - _Mirror_  
  
**'A giant of the thriller genre'** - _TimeOut_

## Details

- **Price:** 10.75 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Random House
- **Type:** John Grisham

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