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In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill.

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Main Author: Grisham, John
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 1994.
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Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Fiction.
Civil rights movements > Fiction.
Greenville (Miss.) > Fiction.
Death row inmates > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Bombings > Fiction.
Legal stories > Mississippi.
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Summary:In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill.
Physical Description:vi, 486 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:0385424728 :
0385474407 (lmtd. ed.)
0385474407 (limited edition)
Author Notes:John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham 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 fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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