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Book Review: The Runaway Jury (1996)
The Runaway Jury (1996)
by John Grisham (Author)

Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: June 1996
ISBN: 978-0385472944
Page Count: 414
My rating : 4 stars

Blurb
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one Book Review: The Runaway Jury (1996)
The Runaway Jury (1996)
by John Grisham (Author)

Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: June 1996
ISBN: 978-0385472944
Page Count: 414
My rating : 4 stars

Blurb
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he’s being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors’ increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important,why?

My thought
WHEN THEIR JOB IS DONE, JUSTICE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME....
They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women will have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the most explosive civil 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 hangs 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....
A good book. I thought this was a fun read and I felt that it really made you see both sides of this story although it was somewhat 'agendized' which I never like. I enjoyed the secret underlying 'rip off' more than anything.
The novel had an interesting twist to the ending in addition to thought provoking material. Even though fiction there appears to be some truth to the book.
Never knew a jury could be so manipulated. Lawyers, so manipulative....crooked. The intrigue of jury selection and the politics of the decisons they take are as munipulated as the forces behind the court walls. How ironic, that the place for the truth becomes the battle ground for manipulation Open's up one's mind to the dirty world of litigation Grisham consistently delivers a product you will enjoy to the finish. Just be sure you have time to get it done ! ...more

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