Sycamore Row: Jake Brigance, hero of A TIME TO KILL, is back by John Grisham (En

Description: Sycamore Row by John Grisham Fight them, Mr Brigance. To the bitter end. We must prevail. Jake Brigance, hero of A TIME TO KILL, is back. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old mans suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both. As the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbards death:What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang?Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row? And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, no human should ever see? In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill. As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own. Notes Long-awaited successor to A Time To Kill, a classic Grisham legal thriller. As the attorney for the estate of an old man with a secret fortune, Jake Brigance takes on the 2 incendiary topics of Ford County: money and race. Over 275m John Grisham books have been sold worldwide. Author Biography John Grisham is the author of twenty-five novels, one work of non-fiction, and one collection of short stories. His works are translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi. Review a gripping read - Literary ReviewA solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south... The much-trailed conclusion is powerful. - GuardianAs with earlier books by Grisham, what we are given here is the purest of unvarnished storytelling. Grisham has no truck with any studied elegance of style; he is more in touch with the strategies played out in the books of such predecessors as Erle Stanley Gardner and his dogged attorney, Perry Mason. But he knows that modern readers require a conflicted, multifaceted hero, and that he provides in Jake Brigance. Its good to see the troubled attorney back. - The IndependentSycamore Row bristles with all the old authority....Its good to see the troubled attorney back - IndependentGrishams decision to revive Brigance after almost 25 years and write what amounts to a historical novel is intriguing. He has produced a solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south. (Segregation, too: when Brigance invites Langs 25-year-old daughter, Portia, home to dinner, he realises she is the first black person ever to have eaten in his house.) Coming so close on the heels of last years The Racketeer, however, Sycamore Row cant help but disappoint. That novel, about a small-town lawyer jailed for accidentally laundering money, was a blast - as devious and unpredictable as its sociopathic antihero narrator. - Guardian Promotional Fight them, Mr Brigance. To the bitter end. We must prevail. Long Description Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old mans suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid.The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both.As the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbards death:What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang?Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row? And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, no human should ever see?In the long-awaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career, John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill . As filled with page-turning twists as it is with legal mastery, Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own. Review Quote Sycamore Row bristles with all the old authority....Its good to see the troubled attorney back Promotional "Headline" Fight them, Mr Brigance. To the bitter end. We must prevail. Jake Brigance, hero of A TIME TO KILL, is back. Details ISBN1444765604 Author John Grisham Year 2014 ISBN-10 1444765604 ISBN-13 9781444765601 Format Paperback Publication Date 2014-07-03 Media Book Imprint Hodder Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.6 Pages 528 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Language English UK Release Date 2014-07-03 Subtitle Jake Brigance, hero of A TIME TO KILL, is back Audience General AU Release Date 2014-07-07 NZ Release Date 2014-07-07 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:80691251;

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