Name: The Last Juror
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Author: John Grisham
ISBN: 9780385510431

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Grisham

Publisher

Doubleday Books

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

355

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.1x16.8x2.8 cm

Weight

0.63 kg.

ISBN

0385510438

ISBN13

9780385510431

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Last Juror "

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.

John Grisham

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John Grisham is the author of forty-eight books that have consecutively become number 1 on the US bestseller lists and have been translated into almost fifty languages. His most recent works include The Guardians, The Reckoning, The Whistler, and The Tumor, which is being adapted as a series by HBO. Grisham has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction twice and has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. When he is not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two organizations dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people. Many of his novels explore deeply ingrained issues in the American justice system. John lives on a farm in Virginia.

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