Name: Sparring Partners
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Author: John Grisham
ISBN: 9780593470909

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Grisham

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.1 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9780593470909

Synopsis "Sparring Partners "

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America's favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. "Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until now. Now Mack is back, and he's leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned. In "Strawberry Moon," we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can't save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request. The "Sparring Partners" are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to save herself? By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told.

John Grisham

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John Grisham is the author of forty-eight books that have consecutively become number 1 on the US bestseller lists and have been translated into almost fifty languages. His most recent works include The Guardians, The Reckoning, The Whistler, and The Tumor, which is being adapted as a series by HBO. Grisham has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction twice and has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. When he is not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two organizations dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people. Many of his novels explore deeply ingrained issues in the American justice system. John lives on a farm in Virginia.

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