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The Chamber
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.
Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.
While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life... or cost Adam his.
--back cover
Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.
While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life... or cost Adam his.
--back cover
632 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1994
About the author
John Grisham
462 books93.2k 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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February 21, 2024
4*
Thương và rất hiểu nỗi đau của Adam Hall. Vụ án đầu tiên trong đời luật sư vừa tốt nghiệp ra là án tử hình của ông nội mình. Bằng mọi cách anh phải chạy đua với thời gian để cứu lấy ông. Nhưng quả là vô vọng khi bao nhiêu đơn kháng án đều bị từ chối, buổi chia ly thật đau xót, nghẹn ngào!
Dù cho đã chết, tử tù Sam vẫn sống trong lòng những người trong dòng họ Cayhall. Tình cảm gia đình thật quý giá và thiêng liêng!
Thương và rất hiểu nỗi đau của Adam Hall. Vụ án đầu tiên trong đời luật sư vừa tốt nghiệp ra là án tử hình của ông nội mình. Bằng mọi cách anh phải chạy đua với thời gian để cứu lấy ông. Nhưng quả là vô vọng khi bao nhiêu đơn kháng án đều bị từ chối, buổi chia ly thật đau xót, nghẹn ngào!
Dù cho đã chết, tử tù Sam vẫn sống trong lòng những người trong dòng họ Cayhall. Tình cảm gia đình thật quý giá và thiêng liêng!
May 5, 2020
Cuốn sách vừa nặng nề, vừa u ám nhưng lại có sức lay động rất lớn.
January 31, 2023
Một câu chuyện hay về tình cảm gia đình. Hãy nhìn theo suy nghĩ của người Mỹ và hoàn cảnh nước Mỹ.
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