Book Preview When A Time to Kill was published twenty years ago, I soon learned the painful lesson that selling books was far more difficult than writing them. I bought a thousand copies and had trouble giving them away. I hauled them in the trunk of my car and peddled them at libraries, garden clubs, … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY JOHN GRISHAM A Time to Kill The Firm The Pelican Brief The Client The Chamber The Rainmaker The Runaway Jury The Partner The Street Lawyer The Testament The Brethren A Painted House Skipping Christmas The Summons The King of Torts Bleachers The Last Juror The Broker The Innocent Man Playing for … Read more
Book Preview The imposter borrowed the name of Neville Manchin, an actual professor of American literature at Portland State and soon-to-be doctoral student at Stanford. In his letter, on perfectly forged college stationery, “Professor Manchin” claimed to be a budding scholar of F. Scott Fitzgerald and was keen to see the great writer’s “manuscripts and papers” … Read more
Book Preview The tumor in my father’s pancreas was removed last week in an operation that lasted five hours and was more difficult than his surgeons had expected. Afterward, they delivered the grim news that most people in his condition could not expect to live for more than ninety days. Since I knew nothing of … Read more
Book Preview High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach … Read more
Book Preview Near the rural town of Clanton, Mississippi, little Tonya Hailey is brutally raped, beaten, and left for dead by two drunken and remorseless men. The rapists are almost immediately caught in a road side bar, where they have been bragging of their exploits. When the men appear in court days later, Tonya’s father … Read more
Book Preview The unhappy little home was out in the country, some six miles south of Clanton on an old county road that went nowhere in particular. The house could not be seen from the road and was accessed by a winding gravel drive that dipped and curved and at night caused approaching headlights to … Read more
Book Preview The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather … Read more
Book Preview The Frog-King, or Iron Henry Cat and Mouse in Partnership The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids The Wonderful Musician The Pack of Ragamuffins Little Brother and Little Sister The Three Little Men in the Wood The Three Snake-Leaves The … Read more
Book Preview Strange—is it not?—that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. – Omar Khayyám Rubaiyat (Edward Fitzgerald, trans.) Strange—is it not?—that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness … Read more
Book Preview William Lee Beauchamp whisked his desk chair into the center of the cordoned test zone of his team’s lab, hundreds of feet below the rocky ground of Cheyenne Mountain State Park in Colorado Springs. He wheeled a monitoring device behind him to which he was attached via five sticker tipped cords. He checked … Read more
Book Preview 1905 24 December 2005 It was a picture-postcard Christmas Eve. Snow covered the ground. It had been snowing on and off all day, and it was gently falling now. The stained-glass windows of the ancient Church of St. Elisabeth glowed faintly from the forest of candles burning inside, and the church itself seemed … Read more
Book Preview When Byron J. Timmons, Jr., saw what was causing the airport-bound traffic to be stopped and backed up for at least a kilometer, he muttered an obscenity that was absolutely not appropriate for an assistant legal attaché of the embassy of the United States of America. The twenty-nine-year-old—who was six feet one and … Read more
Book Preview Danubius Hotel Gellért Szent Gellért tér 1 Budapest, Hungary When he heard the ping of the bell announcing the arrival of an elevator in the lobby of the Gellért, Sándor Tor, who was the director of security for the Budapester Neue Tages Zeitung, raised his eyes from a copy of the newspaper—so fresh … Read more
Book Preview As an American, Jean-Paul Lorimer was always annoyed or embarrassed, or both, every time he arrived at Vienna’s international airport. The first thing one saw when entering the terminal was a Starbucks kiosk. The arrogance of Americans to sell coffee in Vienna! With such a lurid red neon sign! Dr. Jean-Paul Lorimer, Ph.D.—a … Read more
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Book Preview In 1944, Vice President Henry A. Wallace was perceived by many-perhaps most-highly placed Democrats to be a genuine threat to the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was cordially detested by the Republicans-and many conservative Southern Democrats-both for his lib-eral domestic policies and his unabashed admiration of the Soviet Union. Perhaps equally … Read more