A Time to Kill

In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling  author John Grisham probes the savage depths of  racial violence… as he delivers a compelling tale of  uncertain justice in a small southern town…

  Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old  girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless  young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock  and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black  father acquires an assault rifle — and takes  justice into his own outraged hands.

For ten  days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper  fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the  nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake  Brigance struggles to save his client’s life…and  then his own…