A Time for Mercy: John Grisham’s latest no. 1 bestseller – the perfect Christmas present. (Jake Brigance) Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers by John Grisham with 480 pages.

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    Title : A Time for Mercy: John Grisham’s latest no. 1 bestseller – the perfect Christmas present. (Jake Brigance)
    Brand : John Grisham
    Category : Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers
    ISBN : 1529342325
    Page of number : 480 pages
    Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton; 1st edition (13 Oct. 2020)
    Language : English
    Dimensions : 16.2 x 4.4 x 23.6 cm
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Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers A Time for Mercy: John Grisham’s latest no. 1 bestseller – the perfect Christmas present. (Jake Brigance) by John Grisham Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back, in his toughest case ever. ‘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 . . . There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance – they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat’ – Daily Mail‘A master of plotting and pacing . . . suspenseful’ – New York TimesCAN A KILLER EVER BE ABOVE THE LAW?Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. 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. But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. Her son, sixteen-year-old Drew, knows he only has this one chance to save them. He picks up a gun and takes the law into his own hands.In Clanton, Mississippi, there is no one more hated than a cop killer – but a cop killer’s defence lawyer comes close. Jake Brigance doesn’t want this impossible case but he’s the only one with enough experience to defend the boy. As the trial begins, it seems there is only one outcome: the gas chamber for Drew. But, as the town of Clanton discovers once again, when Jake Brigance takes on an impossible case, anything is possible …Starring the same hero and setting that featured in John Grisham’s multi-million-selling bestsellers A Time to Kill (adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey) and Sycamore Row, A Time for Mercy is an unforgettable thriller you won’t be able to put down.‘When Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they’re not just alive, they’re pulsating’ Mirror‘A superb, instinctive storyteller’ The Times‘Storytelling genius … he is in a league of his own’ Daily Record 350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM

    John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, remains one of his best. That was about a man who, in 1985, killed someone but may have been justified in doing so. A Time for Mercy is about, er, a man who, in 1990, killed someone but may have been justified in doing so. Thankfully, that’s pretty much where the similarities end, but a story that invites the reader to make up his or her mind whether it was a righteous kill or not is always going to keep you turning the pages even after the story has ended.It also invites the reader to wonder if the victim of the murder deserves such a retributory punishment for his wrong-doing, and whether his killer, likewise, deserves the ultimate judicial punishment for his wrong-doing.Of course, cynics will argue that Grisham is capitalising on the civil unrest prevailing in America in 2020 but you can’t really blame him for feeding off it because it’s a subject close to many hearts and minds just now. Millions of people consider US police officers to be above the law if and when they kill, although the difference in this story is that the (white) police officer is off-duty when the horrifying assault takes place.A Time for Mercy explores the ways in which acts of violence committed by or against law enforcement officers can complicate the pursuit of justice.Jake Brigance is back, thereby making this a second sequel I suppose (after Sycamore Row in 2013), and he is appointed to represent a 16-year-old boy with regard to the murder of his mother’s boyfriend – who also happens to be a police officer. Just as in A Time to Kill, this isn’t about ‘who did it’ because everybody knows who the killer is. Once again the reader and all of the story’s characters face the ethical challenge over whether the killing was justified or not. Was it self defence? That’s just one of the counter-arguments. The young killer, his 14-year-old sister and his mother had lived in fear of the deceased policeman, who had a drink problem and would often physically and violently abuse them.Opinion amongst the local community in Clanton, Mississippi, is weighted against Jake. Those with an affiliation to law enforcement believe the teenager should not only be tried in court as an adult, but if he’s found guilty, he should be executed. Quite a few ordinary citizens feel the same. Jake becomes very unpopular for defending a cop-killer, and while this is 1990 and long before the era of social media, there’s still a battle to be fought against those who decide that someone is guilty even before there’s a trial.One of the intriguing things about this story – and the author is aware enough to mention it in the dialogue halfway through – is that there can be no satisfactory outcome. It’s a murder, and the killer is known. There will be a trial, and the jury will decide ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’. But unlike the first Grisham novel (in which just about everyone reading it hoped the killer would be found not guilty), in this case it’s not quite as simple. Any verdict could be wrong, even if you consider the possibilities in advance. So Grisham is creating a considerable problem for himself here, and it’s a testament to his skills as a story-teller that he is able to deliver a conundrum that feels very real (for all I know, this might be based on real-life events) and which seems impossible to resolve – yet resolve it he does.Quite apart from this being a very good courtroom thriller with sharp dialogue and with engaging characters who you will either love or hate, at the heart of it all is the moral complexity that is generated by a murder of a local man who some will feel had it coming to him while others will feel lost his life unjustly.With the exception of a few procedural elements this is never a boring read and is bound to pull on the emotions one way or another. I’ve read several Grisham novels over the past 20-odd years and while this may be a bit ‘familiar’ in places (in its style and structure), it’s still a fresh new read and compares well with most of this author’s best work.

Without doubt one of my favourite authors. Grisham books always have a great story to tell, his knowledge of the law shines through and make his books valid and authentic.I love his characters! Not perfect, but believable…and you don’t always know for sure how this Courtroom drama will turn out! To me, a great book is one that you look forward to rejoining and enjoying meeting the characters, waiting with baited breath to see how the story plays out, especially in the Courtroom! Enjoy….

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