The Runaway Jury: A Novel |
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| Authors: | Grisham, John |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC030000, FIC031030, FIC034000 |
| ISBN: | 9780307576064, Related ISBNs: 030757606X, 0345531949, 0375433449, 0385339690, 0385472943 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 560, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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 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?
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators.
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