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A Time for Mercy

A Jake Brigance Novel

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A Time for Mercy

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a “riveting” (The New York Times) courtroom drama from “the best thriller writer alive” (Ken Follett).

There is a time to kill and a time for justice. Now comes A Time for Mercy.

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line.

Bursting with all the courthouse scheming, small-town intrigue, and stunning plot twists that have become the hallmarks of the master of the legal thriller, A Time for Mercy is a richly rewarding novel that is both timely and timeless, full of wit, drama, and—most of all—heart.

Look for all of John Grisham’s gripping Jake Brigance novels:
A Time to Kill
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“[John Grisham] has returned to the place closest to his heart. . . . The trial is riveting. . . . It’s striking how suspenseful the story is . . . how much we’re gripped by the small details.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times

“Textbook Grisham—and that’s a compliment . . . a briskly paced legal drama, with just the right amount of suspense, conflict, plot twists, [and] courtroom theatrics.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A fine example of [Grisham’s] well-honed skillat hooking readers right into a story.”—Tampa Bay Times
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Echt gutes Buch, spannende Geschichte, ich kann es nur weiter empfehlen! Wie immer bei J. Grisham.

Spannend

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I’ve read/listened to every book by John Grisham and was much looking forward to this one. As always the writing gripped me within a couple of sentences and I finished the 20-hour-audiobook in two days. So, why do I feel disappointed?
It would not matter that I have read other stories about domestic violence and preemptive killings and children in danger of being crushed by a harsh justice system. It would not matter if there was an original angle to the plot, fascinating characters, good visuals. But the book comes across as routinely written, using ingredients that have worked well else-where. There is a bit of a pretense that we know some of the protagonists from former books, but that is no reason to make do with sketches about people, who do not come alive on the page.
Strictly speaking the book does not even have an ending and I wondered if the rest of the plot is supposed to be revealed in another book.
I admit that Grisham is better than many if not most writers of the genre, even with this book that I regard as one of his weakest. But he does not deliver anything groundbreaking any more, like The Firm or Pelican Brief, or Playing for Pizza, which was really original. To me it looks like he is fulfilling his contract with his editor but his heart is not in it any more. He has enough fans, like me, who will buy every book in the hope that it will be another one of the fascinating Grishams again.
If this book will indeed have a sequel, I am not looking forward to it any more.

Grips your attention but doesn’t deliver

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A Time for Mercy - einfach nur gut - insbesondere der native speaker! Kann das Buch nur wärmstens empfehlen.

Mit Begeisterung gehört!

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from the beginning you are wondering how the story is called to turn out. the ending is not completely satisfying, but we'll...

One of his best

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Hab so meine Zweifel, dass Grisham das selbst geschrieben hat. Hat sich eher wie Fliessbandarbeit eines Ghostwriters angehört. Generisch, vorraussehbar, wie zusammengepuzzelt aus Versatzstücken aus seinem riesigen Fundus. Keine Überraschungen, unerwarteten Wendungen oder echte Höhepunkte.
Kein Vergleich mit ‚A time to kill‘!
Sprecher ist gut aber man muss den SüdstaatenSprech mögen. Mir ist das zu sehr Redneck!
Grisham kanns besser, viel besser!

Naja

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