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A US state senator is dead, and a young boy is told the name of the killer - a mafia hitman, Danny "The Blade" Muldano - by Muldano's lawyer. After the lawyer's suicide, Muldano and the boy are the only people who know the killer's identity. By the author of The Firm and The Pelican Brief.

Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time…

Tiempo de matar es un portentosa novela de desquite y justicia. Desde la violación de una niña hasta el veredicto del jurado, revela con una fuerza inexorable la diferencia entre el estudio y la práctica de la ley, y nos ofrece un reflejo inolvidable de lo bueno y lo malo que hay en cada uno de nosotros.

An 11-year-old child, Mark Sway, has discovered the dead body of a US senator, and is the only one who knows where it is. The FBI want the body and the killer wants the boy. Grisham is the author of

Clanton, Mississippi, octobre 1946. Pete Banning, héros de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est un membre respecté de la communauté. Mais un matin, alors qu'il se rend en ville, il tue froidement son ami, le reverend Dexter Bell. A l'incomprehension de cet acte s'ajoute le refus de Pete d'etre defendu durant son proces.

A new Grisham legal thriller is always an event, but this one is exceptional as the author is returning to Jake Brigance, the hero of his very first book, A Time To Kill . . . There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance - they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat' - Daily Mail

Jeune avocat de Seabrook, Keith Russo est tué dans son bureau, d'un coup de fusil. Aucun indice, ni témoin ni mobile pour aiguiller les enquêteurs. Pourtant, un ancien client de l'homme de loi, Quinc

Samuel Sooleymon ha diciassette anni e un'unica grande passione: il basket. Vive con la famiglia in un villaggio del Sudan Meridionale, paese dilaniato dalla guerra civile e dalla carestia. Agile, scattante e velocissimo, Samuel è ancora un atleta acerbo e inesperto quando viene notato da un coach che gli offre l'occasione di una vita: partire per gli Stati Uniti con altri ragazzi come lui per partecipare a un importante torneo che potrebbe aprirgli le porte di una carriera sportiva sfolgorante. Samuel non si è mai allontanato da casa, ma il sogno di diventare un campione è la molla che lo spinge a lasciare tutto e iniziare la sua avventura. Ed è proprio quando muove i primi passi nell'ambiente ultracompetitivo dell'agonismo sportivo che lo raggiunge una terribile notizia: la guerra civile non ha risparmiato il suo villaggio e la vita di suo padre, mentre sua madre e i suoi due fratelli sono stati accolti in un campo profughi. Sooley, come ormai tutti lo chiamano, vorrebbe tornare in Sudan, però non può farlo. E disperato, ma possiede qualcosa che nessun altro atleta ha: la fiera determinazione di farcela, di passare le selezioni, di vincere per poter portare in salvo il prima possibile la sua famiglia in America. Decide di allenarsi senza un attimo di tregua. Ha un anno di tempo per diventare il simbolo del riscatto e l'orgoglio del suo paese. Riuscira a entrare nella leggenda? "Il sogno di Sooley" è il primo romanzo di John Grisham sul basket, sport da lui molto amato e da cui prende spunto per raccontare la storia commovente e appassionante di una giovane vita esemplare.

Unschuldig im Todestrakt.In Seabrook, Florida wird der junge Anwalt Keith Russo erschossen. Der Morder hinterlasst keine Spuren. Es gibt keine Zeugen, keine Verdachtigen, kein Motiv. Trotzdem wird Quincy Miller verhaftet, ein junger Afroamerikaner, der fruher zu den Klienten des Anwalts zahlte.Miller bekommt lebenslang und sitzt 22 Jahre im Gefangnis. Dann schreibt er einen Brief an die "Guardian Ministries" und der Anwalt Cullen Post ubernimmt seinen Fall. Er ahnt nicht, dass er sich damit in Lebensgefahr begibt.

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'A master of plotting and pacing' - New York Times'With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions' - Entertainment WeeklyONE MAN. ONE HOPE. ONCE CHANCE TO BECOME A LEGEND.ONE MAN Seventeen-year-old Samuel Sooleyman comes from a village in South Sudan, a war-torn country where one third of the population is a refugee. His great love is basketball: his prodigious leap and lightning speed make him an exceptional player. And it may also bring him his big chance: he has been noticed by a coach taking a youth team to the United States.ONE HOPE If he gets through the tournament, Samuel's life will change beyond recognition. But it's the longest of long shots. His talent is raw and uncoached.There are hundreds of better-known players ahead of him. And he must leave his family behind, at least at the beginning. ONE CHANCE As American success beckons, devastating news reaches Samuel from home.Caught between his dream and the nightmare unfolding thousands of miles away, 'Sooley', as he's nicknamed by his classmates, must make hard choices about his future. This quiet, dedicated boy must do what no other player has achieved in the history of his chosen game: become a legend in twelve short months. Global bestseller John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in this gripping and incredibly moving novel that showcases his storytelling powers in an entirely new light.'Grisham's books are smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex interesting people' - The Washington Post'A superb, instinctive storyteller' - The Times 350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM

Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect--a sitting judge--in "one of the best crime reads of the year.... Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense.... Worth staying up all night to finish" (Wall Street Journal).In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. He is the most cunning of all serial killers. He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.He is a judge, in Florida--under Lacy's jurisdiction.He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list?The Judge's List is by any measure John Grisham's most surprising, chilling novel yet.

Wenn aus der Wahrheit Boses wachst - der neue groe Roman von John GrishamOktober 1946 in Clanton, Mississippi. Pete Banning ist einer der angesehensten Burger der Stadt. Der hochdekorierte Kriegsveteran hat es als Oberhaupt einer alt eingesessenen Familie mit dem Anbau von Baumwolle zu Reichtum gebracht. Er ist ein aktives Mitglied der Kirche, ein loyaler Freund, ein guter Vater, ein verlasslicher Nachbar. Doch eines Morgens wendet sich das Blatt. Pete Banning steht in aller Fruh auf, nimmt ein leichtes Fruhstuck zu sich, fahrt zur Kirche und erschiet den Pfarrer. Die Nachricht verbreitet sich wie ein Lauffeuer. Die Gemeinde ist erschuttert, und es gibt nur eine einzige Frage: Warum? Pete Banning aber schweigt. Sein einziger Kommentar lautet: Ich habe nichts zu sagen. Und auch als ihm die Todesstrafe droht, bricht er sein Schweigen nicht. Ein Aufsehen erregender Prozess beginnt, an dessen Ende in Clanton nichts mehr ist, wie es zuvor war.

In suburban Georgetown, a killers Reeboks whisper on the 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 legal brief.To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment its political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murdera murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one personan ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergateshe can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White Houses inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darbys briefsomeone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.

Memphis lawyer Rudy Baylor thought his law degree would be his ticket to the good life. Now without a job, he pins his hopes on an insurance dispute that has left a family devastated and opened a door to a lawsuit. By the time he gets to court, a heavyweight defense team is assembled against him and Rudy is plunged into a maze of lies and legal maneuvering. The case that started small is exploding into a million-dollar war of nerves, skill, and physical violence--a fight that could cost Rudy his life, or make him the biggest rainmaker in the land.