by John Grisham · A.W. Bruna Uitgevers B.V. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789022981030
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«De Jury» is the legal thriller by John Grisham published by A.W. Bruna Uitgevers B.V. in paperback (387 pages, in Dutch).
In a small town in the American South, a ten-year-old Black girl is raped by two white youths. Her father, who distrusts the justice system, kills the attackers and ends up as the defendant. Young lawyer Jake Brigance takes on his defence in a trial that divides the community and leaves the decision in the hands of the jury.
First instalment of the Jake Brigance saga; Dutch translation of A Time to Kill (1989) by Maaike Bijnsdorp.
For fans of legal thrillers and courtroom stories with a social backdrop in the American South.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
