In 1990, five years after successfully defending accused murderer Carl Lee Hailey (in A Time to Kill, the first book in the series), attorney Jake Brigance of fictional Clanton (Ford County), Mississippi, is assigned by Circuit Court Judge Omar Noose to the case of 16-year-old Drew Gamble. As Jake digs into the details of the case, he knows he has to find a way to save the boy, even at the risk of his career and his family's safety. Once again, Brigance is the court-appointed lawyer who seeks truth and justice for his client, in this case a sixteen-year-old boy named Drew Gamble, who is charged with murdering a law enforcement officer and faces the death penalty. The novel was released on 13 October 2020. The latest book features the return of the character Jake Brigance, a small-town Mississippi lawyer who takes on difficult cases. Print (hardback and large print paperback)/digital (audiobook and Kindle)Ī Time for Mercy, a legal thriller novel by American author John Grisham, is the sequel to A Time to Kill (his first novel, published in 1989) and Sycamore Row (published in 2013).
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