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Sign up todayThe Runaway Jury
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Learn moreEvery jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him.In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymousyoung woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior.Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important,why?
John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.
Reviews
“Grisham stacks his Jury with suspense. . . . Don’t start it unless you are prepared to stay up all night.”—Los Angeles Times“Deserves to be a runaway success.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“A story of genuine significance . . . entertainingly unpredictable.”—The New York Times
“Marvelously clever . . . Grisham is one of the few writers who accurately and empathetically describes working-class Americans of all races and both sexes.”—USA Today
“Fascinating. . . Grisham does a solid job of cutting between the action in the courtroom. . . . [He] also gives a good primer on the psychology of juries.”—Chicago Tribune
“Grisham provides enough suspense to make the pages fly.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Grisham’s strength lies in his narrative ability. The story is tightly plotted, with several neat twists at the end.”—The Plain Dealer
“Both intellectually and emotionally satisfying . . . It’s a thriller for people who think.”—Publishers Weekly Expand reviews