He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system.
Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night.
They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. To say that Italy-the land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and football americano-holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement. And now they’ve got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is) and doesn’t speak a word of Italian. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player-any former NFL player-at their helm. Against enormous odds, Rick finally gets a job-as the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers. Overnight, he becomes a national laughingstock-and is immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams.īut all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him. With a seventeen-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provides what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually gets into the game. Rick Dockery is the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Three Classic Thrillers (The Firm / The Appeal / The Chamber) (2012).Other books by the author that have been adapted into films include: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, and A Time to Kill. The book was also adapted into a 1993 feature film, The Firm, starring Tom Cruise. His debut novel, A Time to Kill, was published in 1989, while his second novel, The Firm (1991), was received well, selling more than seven million copies. Inspired by cases and testimony, Grisham began writing for fun in the wee hours of the morning before going to work. He was elected to the Mississippi state House of Representatives in 1983, where he served until 1990. Upon graduating from law school, Grisham started practicing law, with a focus on criminal defense and personal injury litigation. degree from the University of Mississippi, School of Law, one which he acquired in 1981. John Ray Grisham Jr., popularly known as John Grisham, is an American attorney and award-winning author of legal thrillers, young adult and non-fiction books.īorn in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Grisham holds a J.D.
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