Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
The breakneck and gripping legal thriller from worldwide bestseller John Grisham.
John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers * Telegraph *
Leaves one eager for more * Spectator *
No one does it better than Grisham * Daily Telegraph *
A master storyteller * Huffington Post *
Sebastian Rudd is a kind of social justice warrior and Grisham uses him to take jabs at the legal system. . all with a blunt, rude, gravelly poetic wise guy voice that makes Rudd come across as a kind of 21st-century Philip Marlowe. * Benjamin Percy, The New York Times Book Review *
Terrific . . . The biggest mystery that ROGUE LAWYER poses is how Grisham, at this stage in his long writing career, can still devise all these distinctive characters, tricky legal predicaments and roguishly cheating ways to worm out of them. It's one mystery we Grisham fans just want to appreciate, rather than solve. * Washington Post *
Highly readable, thanks to Grisham's fast-moving narrative skills * Independent *
The energy is sustained to the end * Sunday Times *
A riveting read . . . A very satisfying ending * Gloria Hunniford, Mail on Sunday *
Leaves one eager for more * Spectator *
No one does it better than Grisham * Daily Telegraph *
A master storyteller * Huffington Post *
Sebastian Rudd is a kind of social justice warrior and Grisham uses him to take jabs at the legal system. . all with a blunt, rude, gravelly poetic wise guy voice that makes Rudd come across as a kind of 21st-century Philip Marlowe. * Benjamin Percy, The New York Times Book Review *
Terrific . . . The biggest mystery that ROGUE LAWYER poses is how Grisham, at this stage in his long writing career, can still devise all these distinctive characters, tricky legal predicaments and roguishly cheating ways to worm out of them. It's one mystery we Grisham fans just want to appreciate, rather than solve. * Washington Post *
Highly readable, thanks to Grisham's fast-moving narrative skills * Independent *
The energy is sustained to the end * Sunday Times *
A riveting read . . . A very satisfying ending * Gloria Hunniford, Mail on Sunday *
Beginning with The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published at least one #1 bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Ten have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time To Kill. His Theodore Boone series for young readers is now in development at Netflix. An avid sports fan, he has written two novels about football, one about baseball, and in 2021 he published Sooley, a story set in the world of college basketball. His lone work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries. He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize For Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award For Fiction. When he's not writing, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his recent fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice systems. A graduate of Mississippi State University and Ole Miss Law School, he lives on a farm in central Virginia, around the corner from the youth baseball complex he built in 1996. He still serves as its Commissioner.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473622906 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473622905 |
| Title | Rogue Lawyer |
| Author | John Grisham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2016-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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