The Reckoning
by John Grisham | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0525620931 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0525620931 Global Overview for this book
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I got this book on 9/30 at the Little Free Library #33426 in Cary, NC in exchange for another book. Since it was crowded in with so many books the outer cover has started to come off. Someone has tried to repair it with rubber bands. I'll try to repair it like I used to do when I worked in libraries.
c. 2018 -- 561 pages -- Paperback -- Suspense, Thriller, Legal thriller, Legal Story -- 15 weeks on the USA Today bestseller list:
#1 (11/1/18)
#4 (11/8/18+12/27)
#6 (11/15/18+11/22+12/20+7/4/19+7/11)
#8 (12/6/18+7/18/19)
#9 (1/3/19+8/1)
#10 (11/29/18+1/10/19+6/27)
Back Cover: October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi. Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son -- a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete's only statement about it -- to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family -- was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling. The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.
c. 2018 -- 561 pages -- Paperback -- Suspense, Thriller, Legal thriller, Legal Story -- 15 weeks on the USA Today bestseller list:
#1 (11/1/18)
#4 (11/8/18+12/27)
#6 (11/15/18+11/22+12/20+7/4/19+7/11)
#8 (12/6/18+7/18/19)
#9 (1/3/19+8/1)
#10 (11/29/18+1/10/19+6/27)
Back Cover: October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi. Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son -- a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete's only statement about it -- to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family -- was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling. The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.
