He also paints the novel’s setting in vivid detail, filling A Time to Kill with compelling side characters and moments of small-town eccentricity. Can he and his client survive the turmoil as long-simmering racial tensions threaten to tear their community apart? Tackling racism, our flawed criminal justice system, and the often heavily biased role of the media, Grisham does more than pay lip service to these hot-button issues. Local attorney Jake Brigance takes on the man’s case, despite the escalating racial violence surrounding it in their largely segregated town of Clanton, Mississippi. When a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two local white reprobates, her father takes justice into his own hands, murdering them in a state of rage. John Grisham showed his mastery of the legal thriller with this taut, slow-burn story of a small-town Southern lawyer taking on a racially charged case.
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