Little has changed in Ford County in the three years since lawyer Jake Brigance took on the hopeless case of Carl Lee Hailey and fought the ingrained racial prejudice and the power of the Ku Klux Klan. But in this stunning sequel to the book which made his name, Grisham is right back at the top with what is probably his most convincing and compelling work yet. I was among many critics who thought that Grisham was fraying at the edges, that his later work was lacking the insight and the humanity which made him so successful, that fame and wealth had blunted that driving force for social justice which set him apart from the rest. And America’s favourite author triumphantly proves the doubters wrong. They say never go back – it can never be the same, but almost 25 years after the publication of A Time To Kill, John Grisham is back where it all started for him in the courtroom of the small Mississippi town of Clanton.
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