A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)

by John Grisham

AUTHOR’S NOTE

A TIME TO KILL was inspired by a dramatic event I witnessed in a courtroom 35 years ago. I was 30 years old and had never thought about writing anything other than legal briefs and threatening letters to insurance companies. My initial goal was to simply write the story. I had no deadline, no schedule, no idea when I would finish or what I would do if I ever finished. And that is not the original title. It’s too awful to even think about.