03155cam a2200433 i 4500 626028390 TxAuBib 20141216120000.0 930812s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93032545 9780385470810 0385470819 9780385471121 ltd. edition 0385471122 ltd. edition 9780385470780 0385470789 (OCoLC)28709712 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda JBO DLC OCL OCLCQ XY4 BTCTA YDXCP SIE OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO IAD OCL TCJ OEL VTU OCLCQ OCLCO FQG OCLCA JX9 ZQP OCL MIR ROPUB TxAuBib JBO OCL OCLCQ XY4 BTCTA YDXCP SIE OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO IAD OCL TCJ OEL VTU OCLCQ OCLCO FQG OCLCA JX9 ZQP OCL MIR ROPUB TxAuBib rda Grisham, John. A time to kill / John Grisham. Ltd. edition. New York : Doubleday, 1993. 487 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jake Brigance ; ; 1 John Grisham has become, in less than three years, America's most popular author. While The Firm first put him on bestseller lists across the country, and The Pelican Brief and The Client confirmed his status as the master of the legal thriller, it was A Time to Kill that launched his writing career. Originally published in a small print-run in 1989, and for years unavailable in hardcover, Doubleday is proud to publish a new trade hardcover edition of this gripping courtroom drama. 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 Carl bursts out of the courthouse basement, and executes them with an assault rifle. Murder or executions? Justice or revenge? Carl trusts his life to only one man in town - local criminal lawyer Jake Brigance, who dreams of famous cases, headlines, and the big time. Jake is about to face the fight of his life, and he knows it. Not only is he up against Rufus Buckley - a tough, ambitious district attorney who realizes that a murder conviction could help him gain higher office - but he has a much bigger problem: the rapists are white, the judge is white - and Carl is black. This is a trial sure to change forever the lives of everyone involved. A Time to Kill is a riveting novel that challenges everything we think we know about justice and equality. 770L Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 23 17846. 20141216. Trials (Murder) Mississippi Fiction. Murder Mississippi Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. Legal stories. Fiction. Jake Brigance ; ; 1. TXAAL