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The Runaway Jury: A Novel (Hardcover)

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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 anonymous young 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?

Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

About the Author


John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

Praise For…


"Marvelous!"—News-Tribune, Phoenix, Arizona

"Gripping."—Seattle Times

"Marvelously Clever."—USA Today

"Entertainingly unpredictable!"—The New York Times

"Fascinating. . .high--powered narration."—Chicago Tribune

"His most rewarding novel to date."—Publishers Weekly

"A real page--turner!"—Houston Chronicle

"Deserves to be a runaway success."—Atlanta Journal and Constitution

"Ingeniously narrated."—Entertainment Weekly

Product Details
ISBN: 9780385472944
ISBN-10: 0385472943
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: May 1st, 1996
Pages: 416
Language: English