The Client - Abridged
A Novel
John Grisham
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Description
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when a chance encounter with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.
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John Grisham Series
Bleachers
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: John Grisham
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the... Read more »
The Summons
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep.
And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.... Read more »
The Client - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when a chance encounter with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in... Read more »
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The Broker - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems... Read more »
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The Partner - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and... Read more »
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The Firm
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him... Read more »
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The Chamber - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:
Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.
Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:
Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing... Read more »
The Pelican Brief - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front 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... Read more »
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The Runaway Jury
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Every 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... Read more »
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The Runaway Jury - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Every 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... Read more »
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A Painted House - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: David Lansbury
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words... Read more »
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The Firm - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: D.W. Moffett
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him... Read more »
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The Appeal - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are... Read more »
The Street Lawyer - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a... Read more »
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The King of Torts
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless... Read more »
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The Appeal
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are... Read more »
The Broker
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems... Read more »
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The Chamber
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:
Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.
Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:
Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal... Read more »
The Innocent Man
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be... Read more »
The King of Torts - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless... Read more »
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The Rainmaker - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
John Grisham's five novels -- A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and The Chamber -- have been number one best-sellers, and have a combined total of 47 million copies in print. Now, inThe Rainmaker, Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since A Time To Kill, and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and... Read more »
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A Painted House
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: David Lansbury
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town... Read more »
John Grisham Value Collection - Abridged
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck, D.W. Moffett & Blair Brown
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Three thrilling titles from one of America's most popular bestselling authors, together in a special value collection.
A Time to Kill - For ten days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's... Read more »
Skipping Christmas
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won’t be hosting their... Read more »
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