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A Time To Kill
(John Grisham)

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A Time To Kill
John Grisham

The first novel of Grisham?s, A Time to Kill, proved to be a breakthrough success. The story begins in rural Mississippi with the rape of 10 year old Tanya Hailey, a black girl by some cruel good ol? boys of the south. The girl is viciously attacked and left for dead. After her discovery the two culprits are placed on trial, but Tanya?s father, Carl Lee, decides to take matters into his own hands. Deciding that no white man would serve a just sentence for the attack on his daughter that left her unable to have children, Carl Lee goes to the courthouse during trial and guns the attackers down.
With the preliminaries out of the way Grisham begins the true story here, that of Carl Lee Hailey and his trial in Mississippi for killing two white men. Jake Brigance, Mr. Hailey?s friend and lawyer takes on the case, determined to get his friend acquitted. The problem with this however lies in the fact that after more than a cursory glance at the case it becomes obvious that the murder was premeditated, and committed vigilante style. While there are some that herald Hailey as a hero, there are others who emerge in the story with different views. We have our all-too-familiar Mississippi Klan racists that come out of the wood-works, threatening to blow things to smithereens, as well as those other citizens who understandably resent their small town of Clanton being turned into a media circus.
The entire story points to one crucial point really ? that of whether Carl Lee Hailey will be acquitted or convicted. With Brigance and his cohorts pulling stunts from the fabulous to the questionable, the question of whether Carl Lee will be acquitted actually seems like a legitimate question. I mean, it really does seem like it could go either way. In any event, the book provides a great source of entertainment, and is definitely worth a read.



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