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A Time to Kill / The King of Torts
A Time to Kill
The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle-and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
For ten days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, Mississippi, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jack Brigance struggles to save his client's life... and then his own.
The King of Torts
When Clay Carter of the public defender's office reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. But as he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life-that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts . . .
The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle-and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
For ten days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, Mississippi, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jack Brigance struggles to save his client's life... and then his own.
The King of Torts
When Clay Carter of the public defender's office reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. But as he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life-that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts . . .
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Published October 10, 2006
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About the author
John Grisham
449 books91.7k followersJohn Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm.
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.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of 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.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of 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.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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November 9, 2023
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November 30, 2025
Really LOVED Time to Kill - so rich and believable. King of Torts - was good but not worth a relisten. I anticipate I will listen to time to kill again.
June 2, 2016
Time to Kill was great - 4 stars, subtracting one for the reader's god awful accent for the law student character.
King of Torts was icky. The characters are unlikeable, the plot nothing special. It read like a daydream about what one greedy jerk would do if he won the lottery, combined with a lot of dry mass tort nonsense. 3 stars.
King of Torts was icky. The characters are unlikeable, the plot nothing special. It read like a daydream about what one greedy jerk would do if he won the lottery, combined with a lot of dry mass tort nonsense. 3 stars.
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March 22, 2015It was a long time ago that I read Grisham's books A Time to Kill, and The King of Torts, but I've loved all of his books. He develops his stories slowly, but once I get drawn in, I can't stop reading them.
November 1, 2008
A Time to Kill -- Grisham's first and best book. He should have stopped at one.
February 9, 2009
This is my all time Grisham favorite.
August 23, 2010
A few lol moments, a good book to listen to for a long drive. Not my fave Grisham, but definitely not the worst.
May 3, 2011
A time to kill use a lot of the n word. Other then that Grisham spins a great tail as usual.
November 19, 2019
very good. his first book.
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