A Time for Mercy, John Grisham
A Time for Mercy, John Grisham
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A Time for Mercy

Bestseller

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Michael Beck

Unabridged: 19 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a “riveting” (The New York Times) courtroom drama from “the best thriller writer alive” (Ken Follett).

There is a time to kill and a time for justice. Now comes A Time for Mercy.

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line.

Bursting with all the courthouse scheming, small-town intrigue, and stunning plot twists that have become the hallmarks of the master of the legal thriller, A Time for Mercy is a richly rewarding novel that is both timely and timeless, full of wit, drama, and—most of all—heart.

Look for all of John Grisham’s gripping Jake Brigance novels:
A Time to Kill
Sycamore Row
A Time for Mercy

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on September 21, 2021

Hell yeah! My wishes came true! Matthew McConaughey will reprise his role as Jake Brigance for HBO limited series! He’s back!🥳 I still remember the day I bought “a time to kill” because of high recommendation of bookstore salesman when I insisted I was something addictive and unputdownable! I was you......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on October 15, 2020

Absolutely Sensational! A Time For Mercy is John Grisham at his best! It is an old school legal thriller, just like A Time to Kill and I could not get enough or get the story out of my mind. It took me back to when I first read a Grisham novel as a teenager and I couldn't be happier about it. Jake B......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on October 28, 2020

Jake Brigance is back and it’s about time! The year is 1990 and the place is Clanton, Mississippi. It has been five years since Jake Brigance represented Carl Lee Haley. Now, Jake is asked to represent sixteen year old Drew Gamble, accused of murdering his mother’s boyfriend Stuart Kofer, a cop on t......more

Goodreads review by Joey on December 12, 2020

4.0 stars —- “A Time for Mercy” is the 3rd Jake Brigance novel from John Grisham. I wasn’t a big fan of the last Grisham book I read and was hoping that this one would be back up to his usual high standards. After not being able to read for a week due to COVID issues, I breezed through this very wel......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on March 09, 2022

In this 3rd book in the Jake Brigance series, the attorney represents a juvenile accused of murder. The book works fine as a standalone. ***** It's 1990, and attorney Jake Brigance is notorious in his hometown of Clanton, Mississippi for getting an acquittal for Carl Lee Hailey, a black man who kille......more

Quotes

“[John Grisham] has returned to the place closest to his heart. . . . The trial is riveting. . . . It’s striking how suspenseful the story is . . . how much we’re gripped by the small details.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times

“Textbook Grisham—and that’s a compliment . . . a briskly paced legal drama, with just the right amount of suspense, conflict, plot twists, [and] courtroom theatrics.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A fine example of [Grisham’s] well-honed skillat hooking readers right into a story.”—Tampa Bay Times

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