- Judges, Prisoners, Delitos contra las, Jueces
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 382
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Doubleday, Vintage Español
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9785170802777
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Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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