John Grisham Ford County

Grisham, John: Die Liste. Roman. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Dr. Bernhard Liesen, Bea Reiter und Imke Walsh-Araya. Originaltitel: The Last Juror. Deutsche Erstausgabe. München, Heyne, 2004. ISBN: 3453878345
Klappentext: "Eine große Geschichte von Schuld, Mord, zerstörten Leben und Vergeltung, wie sie nur John Grisham schreiben kann: ungemein spannend und realistisch. Ein Thriller um Recht und Gerechtigkeit, der unter die Haut geht." Das hatte Willie Traynor sich gänzlich anders vorgestellt. Dank einer Finanzspritze seiner reichen Großmutter war der Bettelstudent über Nacht zum Besitzer der Ford County Times aufgestiegen, einem harmlosen Bezirksblättchen in Clanton, Mississippi. Dessen Nachrichtenwert erschöpfte sich in aller Regel in blumigen Nachrufen auf lokale Verblichene. Als die Times 1970 vor dem Ruin stand, sah sich Willie bereits als neuen Citizen Kane. Und tatsächlich -- kaum 14 Tage nach seinem Amtsantritt wird eine hübsche junge Witwe vor den Augen ihrer Kinder vergewaltigt und brutal ermordet. Die Auflage boomt, denn Danny Padgitt, jüngstes und schwärzestes Schaf einer Schurkenfamilie, die den gesamten County kontrolliert, steht unter Tatverdacht. Jetzt sollte der neue Chefredakteur Sitten und Gebräuche der Südstaaten erst richtig kennen lernen! In epischer Breite und zuweilen etwas zähem Erzählfluss kehrt Grisham auf vertrautes Terrain zurück: den Gerichtssaal. Willie, dem journalistischen Greenhorn aus dem Norden erschließt sich ein Südstaatensumpf, in dem Rassismus und Selbstjustiz zum gelebten Alltag gehören. Die schwarze Bevölkerung haust "auf der anderen Seite der Bahnlinie", während die millionenschwere Padgitt-Familie seit Generationen von ihrer Inselfestung aus Schwarzbrennerei, Mord und Drogenschmuggel im großen Stil betreibt. Nichts leichter also, als den "Ausrutscher" ihres jüngsten Sprosses mittels Geld und Repressalien aus der Welt zu schaffen. Eine der Schlüsselfiguren des Romans ist die kluge und bibelfeste Miss Callie, Willie Traynors mütterliche Freundin. Trotz heftigen Widerstands wird sie im Padgitt-Prozess als erste Schwarze in den Geschworenenstand berufen. Ist es ihren moralischen Skrupeln anzulasten, das Danny Padgitt schließlich der Todesstrafe entging? Nach lediglich neun Jahren luxuriösester Haftumstände, beginnt der Horror nach Ford County zurückzukehren. Jedem der damals im Gerichtssaal Anwesenden klingt Danny Padgitts Fluch in den Ohren, bittere Rache zu nehmen. Bald gibt es die ersten Toten. Und die Liste der Geschworenen von einst ist lang! Trotz der merkwürdigen "Leerstelle" im Zentrum des Romans, jener neunjährigen Haftstrafe, deren Spannungsabfall Grisham nicht adäquat überbrücken konnte, spiegelt Die Liste das brodelnde gesellschaftliche Klima eines heißen Südens perfekt und verdammt spannend wieder. --Ravi Unger John Grisham, geboren 1955, ist einer der meistgelesenen Bestseller-Autoren weltweit. Er war Abgeordneter im Parlament des US-Staates Mississippi und führte lange Jahre eine eigene Anwaltskanzlei, bis er sich seit Mitte der Achtzigerjahre ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Virginia und Mississippi. Guter Zustand.

479 Seiten. 21,5 cm. Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. ISBN: 3453878345.

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Grisham, John. THE LAST JUROR. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney & Auckland: Doubleday, 2004.
Brown and gray DJ with white and black lettering. Some rubbing. Hardcover also has some rubbing. Corners and edges worn. Pages are tight and clean. No noticed markings. Overall great condition! ; In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life, " and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. ; 9.5" x 6."5; 355 pages.

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John Grisham. The Summons. Dell, 2002
0440241073 From Barnes & Noble For the first time since A Time to Kill, John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, a place rich in colorful characters and dark family secrets.... With The Summons, the megabestselling author also gets back to the genre that made him famous -- the hard-core legal thriller -- after his successful forays into softer storytelling, A Painted House and Skipping Christmas. From the Publisher Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else. Publishers Weekly Beck offers a fine performance in this no-frills production of Grisham's latest, despite its lack of overall narrative zip. University of Virginia law professor Ray Atlee stumbles upon more than3 million in cash in the rural Mississippi house of his dead father, then tries to discover the source of the money and elude an increasingly persistent and menacing extortionist. Beck is a dynamic reader and excels at tackling the challenge of capturing the characters' Southern twang in the story's dialogue. Ray's voice is refined and authoritative, while that of his black sheep brother, Forrest, carries a slight crack that befits a person lacking in confidence and maturity. Family friend and local lawyer Harry Rex stands out the most, and Beck also deftly portrays a smarmy, boozing Delta attorney who calls himself the "King of the Torts." But even with these intriguing, well-rounded characters and a nice evocation of the legal system's more unsavory machinations, the plot won't move listeners to the edge of their seats. Beck, however, does well with what he has, which is a decently written but rather sluggish tale of suspense with a quirky cast and one good twist at the end. Simultaneous release with the Doubleday hardcover (Forecasts, Feb. 4). (Feb.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. Steve Forbes - Forbes Magazine In this work the person faced with unexpected temptation is a law professor, Ray Atlee. (Tort lawyers are thrashed, but it's merely a warm-up for what's done to them in The King of Torts.) Summoned by his dying father, Atlee discovers boxes of cash at the old man's house totaling more than3 million. Mysterious people are soon after Atlee and the money, and the thrills begin. The surprise ending will once again make you appreciate that how you see yourself and your actions may not necessarily be the way others do. (21 Jul 2003) Library Journal In his latest, Grisham returns to Ford County, MS, the setting of A Time To Kill. No plot details, but the promotion proclaims, "The court is back in session." Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. Synopsis Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over.

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John Grisham: Ford County: Stories, ISBN: 0385532458

In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older... Format: Hardcover Condition: New

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