Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row , is back in his toughest case yet. A COMMUNITY SEEKING JUSTICE. A LAWYER FIGHTING FOR TRUTH . Drew Gamble is a teenage cop killer. He's now the most hated person in Clanton, Mississippi. He's adamant he shot the officer in self-defence. The town believes it was murder. Everyone expects him to be sentenced to death.
It falls to Clanton's most famous lawyer, Jake Brigance, to defend Drew against impossible odds. And anything can happen when Jake Brigance is on the defence. 350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER Readers love A Time for Mercy : 'I couldn't put it down' 'Grisham is the king of trial plots' 'You've just got to keep reading' 'Grisham at his best'.