The Runaway Jury
Book - 1996
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 anonymousyoung 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?
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Publisher:
New York ; Toronto : Doubleday, 1996.
ISBN:
9780385472944
0385472943
0385472943
Characteristics:
401 pages ;,25 cm.
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Add a CommentI have read Many Grisham books, but this is not worth the time. Boring and much, much too detailed. Skimmed through most of it.
Tort law, a multimillion dollar lawsuit, cigarettes, jury tampering....it doesn't get any more suspenseful than this. Watch as Biloxi's biggest trial of the century plays out, and the ultimate knock em down, drag em out tort law trial occurs amidst scandal and deception in this masterful book from John Grisham
This is proof that every writer has at least one lousy novel in them.
The character development was virtually non-existent, which would explain why it was so hard to care about them.
The absence of the traditional hard-working hero, usually found in a Grisham nove, is replaced by an attitude of the end justifies the means.
This remains one of my favorite Grisham books. I think he really excelled in this one
If you plough through it, the ending is great.
Great read. Highly recommend.