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The Summons

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
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Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.

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. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.©2002 Belfry Holdings, Inc.; (P)2004 Random House Audiobooks
Suspense Thriller & Suspense Law Thriller Fiction Crime
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Very enjoyable story as usual,from John Grisham. I love when the stories are centred around Clanton , Ford County and Mississippi with some of the same characters turning up again. By now I have formed pictures of these people and places in my head- it helps to form a visual image of the story and adds greatly to the enjoyment. I thought the narrator did an excellent job.

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