- Fiction, Jury in fiction, Jury, Trials (Products liability)
An anonymous woman tips officials that the jury for a multimillion dollar trial surrounding the tobacco industry may be tampered with.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- CENTURY, Arrow Books, Izd-vo "AST"
- Editions
- 82
- Language
- Spanish, bul, ind, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781856868136
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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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