. The Broker – Grisham, John

Book Preview The Firm The Pelican Brief The Summons The King of Torts Bleachers The Last Juror New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland PUBLISHED BY DOUBLED4.Y a division of Random House Inc Doublfday and the portray al of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc Copyright © 2005 b> Belfry … Read more

The Pelican Brief – Grisham, John

Book Preview In suburban Georgetown a killer’s Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home… In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death… The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a … Read more

The Litigators – Grisham, John

Book Preview ALSO BY JOHN GRISHAM A Time to KillThe FirmThe Pelican BriefThe ClientThe ChamberThe RainmakerThe Runaway JuryThe PartnerThe Street LawyerThe TestamentThe BrethrenA Painted HouseSkipping ChristmasThe SummonsThe King of TortsBleachersThe Last JurorThe BrokerThe Innocent ManPlaying for PizzaThe AppealThe AssociateFord CountyThe Confession The Theodore Boone BooksTheodore Boone: Kid LawyerTheodore Boone: The Abduction A Time to KillThe … Read more

The Chamber – Grisham, John

Book Preview Young lawyer Adam Hall volunteers to take on the defence of a convicted murderer on Mississippi’s Death Row. His client is seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall, whose crime was the killing of two Jewish children in a 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing. Sam despises lawyers and Northern liberals, and there is little hope that he … Read more

The Whistler – Grisham, John

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

The Testament – Grisham, John

Book Preview DOWN TO THE LAST DAY, even the last hour now. I’m an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it has to be better than this. I own the tall glass building in which I sit, and 97 percent of the company … Read more

The Summons – Grisham, John

Book Preview Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He’s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family’s black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone … Read more

The Street Lawyer – Grisham, John

Book Preview The man with the rubber boots stepped into the elevator behind me, but I didn’t see him at first. I smelled him though–the pungent odor of smoke and cheap wine and life on the street without soap. We were alone as we moved upward, and when I finally glanced over I saw the … Read more

The Runaway Jury – Grisham, John

Book Preview The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somewhere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over the latest electronic games … Read more

The Rooster Bar – Grisham, John

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

The Reckoning – Grisham, John

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

The Rainmaker – Grisham, John

Book Preview MY DECISION TO BECOME A LAWYER was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. I was a young teenager, clumsy, embarrassed by my awkwardness, frustrated with life, horrified of puberty, about to be shipped off to a military school by my father for insubordination. He was an ex-Marine who … Read more

The Racketeer – Grisham, John

Book Preview I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It’s a long story. I’m forty-three years old and halfway through a ten-year sentence handed down by a weak and sanctimonious federal judge in Washington, D.C. All of my appeals have run their course, and there is no procedure, mechanism, obscure statute, technicality, loophole, … Read more

The Partner – Grisham, John

Book Preview I FOUND HIM in Ponta Pora, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the Frontier. They found him living in a shaded brick house on Rua Tiradentes, a wide avenue with trees down the center and barefoot boys dribbling soccer balls along the … Read more

The Last Juror – Grisham, John

Book Preview “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 … Read more