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A Time to Kill

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

John Grisham's first and most shocking novel, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. A national media circus descends on Clanton.

As tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. It's the kind of case that could make a young lawyer's career.

But it's also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.

The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY.

'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent

'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult

©1992 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2005 Random House Audiobooks Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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well written story flowed nicely. Narrator could have read a little slower, sounded rushed. overall still enjoyable

fast-paced and well-written

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Nice book, although it can get a bit unclear having so many characters (most of them just side characters, appearing only once). The performance could have been better, to replace the confusion between characters, but all of them sounded the same. Also, is not so easy understandable for non native English speakers.

Good story, requires some effort to asimilate it

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A wonderful book, the real type that will make you cry.
The lawyer that stood up for righteousness, The sheriff that is simply great.

A Time to Cry

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Had no idea I was buying an abridged version. Have now bought the other version, which plays at 16 hours as compared to 3 hours or so, and am looking forward to that!

Abridged!

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I have the book and this audiobook is incomplete. It's not the whole book

incomplete

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