The Runaway Jury - Softcover

Grisham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440221471 ISBN 13: 9780440221470

Publisher: Dell Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

He has waited for this moment.
He has planned his every move.
He has made it onto the jury in the most explosive trial of the century.
Now the verdict belongs to him. . . .

They are at the center of a multimillion dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now that the jury must make a decision in the most explosive trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him...

He is known only as Juror #2. But he has a name, a past, and he has planned his every move with the help of a beautiful woman on the outside. Now, while a corporate empire hands in the balance, while a grieving family waits, and while lawyers are plunged into a battle for their careers, the truth about Juror #2 is about to explode, in a cross fire of greed and corruption--and with justice fighting for its life...

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Review:

Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobacco-company case in Biloxi, and the jury's packed with people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but they soon realize that he in turn is controlled by an even more mysterious young woman. Lives careen off course as they bend everyone in the case to their will.

From the Publisher:

First time in paperback.
"Marvelous!" --News-Tribune (Phoenix, Ariz.)
"Gripping." --The Seattle Times
"Marvelously Clever." --USA Today
"Entertainingly unpredictable!" --The New York Times
"Fascinating. . .high--powered narration." --Chicago Tribune
"His most rewarding novel to date." --Publishers Weekly
"A real page--turner!" --The Houston Chronicle
"Deserves to be a runaway success." --The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
"Ingeniously narrated." --Entertainment Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0440221471
• ISBN 13: 9780440221470
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 550