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Dos amigos de la infancia. Dos familias. Dos lados opuestos de la ley. Un apasionante thriller en el que el maestro Grisham lleva su relato a otro nivel, con personajes memorables y giros inesperados que te haran devorar las paginas hasta su asombroso final. Desde hace casi un siglo, Biloxi es conocida por sus playas, complejos turisticos e industria pesquera. Pero tambien tiene un lado oscuro. Esta ciudad de Mississippi es ademas famosa por el crimen y la corrupcion: desde el juego, la prostitucion y el contrabando hasta el narcotrafico y los asesinatos a manos de sicarios. Un pequeño grupo controla la actividad criminal y se rumorea que muchos de ellos son miembros de la mafia del sur, conocida como mafia Dixie. Keith Rudy y Hugh Malco, amigos de la infancia e hijos de familias inmigrantes, crecieron en Biloxi durante los años sesenta, hasta que en la adolescencia sus vidas siguieron direcciones diferentes. El padre de Keith se convirtio en un legendario fiscal decidido a "limpiar la costa". El de Hugh llego a ser el jefe de la red criminal clandestina de Biloxi. Keith decidio estudiar Derecho y seguir los pasos de su padre. Hugh prefirio trabajar en los clubes nocturnos del suyo.

NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. One of the most popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham as the master of the legal thriller. Now we return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford Countys most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises many more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? Praise for Sycamore Row Powerful . . . immensely readable . . . the best of his books.The Washington Post Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grishams novels.USA Today One of [Grishams] finest . . . Sycamore Row is a true literary event.The New York Times Book Review

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Gefangen im weiten Netz der KorruptionClay Carter muss sich schon viel zu lange und muhsam seine Sporen im Buro des Pflichtverteidigers verdienen. Nur zogernd nimmt er einen Fall an, der fur ihn schlicht ein weiterer Akt sinnloser Gewalt in Washington D.C. ist: Ein junger Mann hat mitten auf der Strae scheinbar wahllos einen Mord begangen. Clay stot aber auf eine Verschworung, die seine schlimmsten Befurchtungen weit ubertrifft.

Worldwide bestseller and master of the legal thriller John Grisham will keep you on the edge of your seat with his most suspenseful thriller yet.Praise for John Grisham:'A superb, instinctive storyteller' The Times'A giant of the thriller genre' Time Out'John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers' Telegraph'No one does it better than Grisham' Daily Telegraph

This is the multi-million copy bestselling thriller that introduced Jake Brigance to Clanton...and has now inspired a sequel, Sycamore Row. When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.

The most corrupt judge in US history. A young investigator with a secret informant. The electrifying new thriller. Lacy Stoltz never expected to be in the firing line. Investigating judicial misconduct by Florida's one thousand judges, her cases so far have been relatively unexciting. That's until she meets Greg Myers, an indicted lawyer with an assumed name, who has an extraordinary tale to tell. Myers is representing a whistle blower who knows of a judge involved in organised crime. Along with her gangster associates this judge has facilitated the building of a casino on an Indian reservation. At least two people who opposed the scheme are dead. Since the casino was built, the judge has made several fortunes off undeclared winnings. She owns property around the world, hires private jets to take her where she wishes, and her secret vaults are overflowing with rare books, art and jewels. No one has a clue what she's been doing - until now. Under Florida law, those who help the state recover illegally acquired assets stand to gain a large percentage of them. Myers and his whistle blower friend could make millions. But first they need Lacy to start an investigation. Is she ready to pit herself against the most corrupt judge in American history, a judge whose associates think nothing of murder? 'The best thriller writer alive' Ken Follett

John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, "A Time to Kill". This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once ag

Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there. Shockwaves that will see her boyfriend atomised in a bomb blast, that will send hired killers chasing after her, that will propel her across the country to meet the one man, investigative reporter Gray Grantham, who is as near the truth as she is. Together can they stay alive long enough to expose the startling truth behind

Includes seven novellas of the American Deep South set in fictional Ford County, Mississippi.

Un tempo socio di un prestigioso studio legale e uno degli uomini più ricchi e potenti di Washington, Joel Backman, noto come "il Broker", è in carcere da sei anni per aver tentato di piazzare sul mercato un software capace di neutralizzare il più sofisticato sistema di spionaggio satellitare. Ora il presidente degli Stati Uniti ha firmato i documenti per la sua liberazione. Cosa vuole da lui?

THE RECKONING: THE ELECTRIFYING NEW NOVEL FROM BESTSELLER JOHN GRISHAM

À leur arrivée dans leur école de droit, Mark, Todd et Zola voulaient changer le monde, le rendre meilleur. Mais aujourd'hui, alors étudiants en dernière année, les trois amis s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont été dupés. Ils ont contractés de lourds emprunts pour financer des études dans une école qui n'est qu'une vulgaire usine a fric, un établissement de troisième zone dispensant un enseignement si médiocre qu'a la sortie, personne, ou presque, ne pourra réussir l'examen du barreau, et encore moins trouver un travail décent. Et quand ils découvrent que leur école, comme d'autres, appartient a un financier de New York qui tire les ficelles dans l'ombre et a aussi dans son escarcelle une banque spécialisée dans les prêts étudiants, les trois amis comprennent qu'ils ont été pris dans la « Grande arnaque des écoles de droit ».Mais il existe peut-être une échappatoire, un moyen de se libérer du joug de cette dette écrasante, de révéler les magouilles de cette banque, et même de gagner quelques dollars au passage. Pour ce faire, toutefois, ils doivent quitter l'école. Bien sûr, abandonner ses études si près de l'examen final est une folie. Pourtant, dans leur cas, cela pourrait être une preuve de sagesse…