Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case but he's the only one with enough experience to defend the boy. In Clanton, Mississippi, there is no one more hated than a cop killer - but a cop killer's defence lawyer comes close. He picks up a gun and takes the law into his own hands. Her son, sixteen-year-old Drew, knows he only has this one chance to save them. But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him. suspenseful' - New York Times CAN A KILLER EVER BE ABOVE THE LAW? Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat' - Daily Mail 'A master of plotting and pacing. There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance - they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations.
'A new Grisham legal thriller is always an event, but this one is exceptional as the author is returning to Jake Brigance, the hero of his very first book, A Time To Kill. (Oct.***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back, in his toughest case ever. The high-profile murder trial that follows, however, doesn’t live up to the promise of the book’s harrowing opening: the prosecuting attorney proves a weak opponent for Brigance, and the tepid courtroom proceedings fail to engage. As Brigance prepares his case, he learns a secret that he hopes will bolster his chances in court. A judge taps Brigance to defend Drew after the teenager is charged with intentional homicide.
After dialing 911 to report Josie’s murder, Drew takes the sleeping lawman’s service weapon and shoots him in the head.
Josie’s 16-year-old son, Drew, believes his unresponsive mother is dead, and fears Kofer will attack Kiera. Kofer falls asleep after a half-hearted attempt to break into the room of Josie’s 14-year-old daughter, Kiera, whom he has sexually abused. In a drunken rage, Kofer falsely accuses Josie of infidelity, and knocks her unconscious. At the start of bestseller Grisham’s disappointing third outing for attorney Jake Brigance (after 2013’s Sycamore Row), deputy sheriff Stu Kofer comes home one night in 1990 to the isolated house outside Clanton, Miss., he shares with his lover, Josie.
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