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The Reckoning
- A Novel
- Gesprochen von: Michael Beck
- Spieldauer: 17 Std. und 36 Min.
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- Kategorien: Krimis & Thriller, Thriller

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Number-one best-selling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.
"A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case." (USA Today)
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son - a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren’t shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family - was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers every minute.
Kritikerstimmen
“In this saga of love and war, John Grisham has given us a sprawling and engrossing story about a Southern family, a global conflict, and the kinds of secrets that can shape all of us. From the courtrooms and jails of rural Mississippi to the war-torn Pacific, Grisham spins a tale that is at once entertaining and illuminating.” (Jon Meacham, New York Times best-selling author of The Soul of America)
“John Grisham is not only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition. And these remarkable skills converge in The Reckoning - an original, gripping, penetrating novel that may be his greatest work yet.” (David Grann, New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon)
“John Grisham is the master of legal fiction, and his latest starts with a literal bang - and then travels backward through the horrors of war to explore what makes a hero, what makes a villain, and how thin the line between the two might be.” (Jodi Picoult, number-one New York Times best-selling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things)
“The quest for justice is only the beginning in this Southern-family saga.... Grisham does so much more this time around.” (Associated Press)
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- 25.04.2019
Story not my favourite but great reader
Dieses Buch ist nicht, was ich von Grisham erwartet habe. Grisham‘s Stories sind immer schwer verdaulich und gehen extrem unter die Haut. Hier lässt sie einen aber schon fast deprimiert zurück, angesichts der Sinnlosigkeit des Verbrechens. Die stundenlange Geschichte über den Krieg auf den Philippinen muss man mögen oder nicht..... ich mochte sie. Begeistert war ich vom Sprecher!!! Phantastisch wie er die Dialekte und verschiedenen Personen gemeistert hat! Großes Lob!
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Geht so!
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- 06.04.2021
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 01.01.2021
What a waste.
By far Grishams worst book. 17 hours of made-up drama and the destruction of an entire family. Unrealistic behavior of the characters. Unbelievable but yet totally foreseeable story with just one little surprise at the very end. Not any tension in the whole book. Seems as if Grisham needed desperately to put an electric chair somewhere in any of his books, in order to not leave this last topic uncovered. This story should be buried as deep under some sycamore trees in rural Mississippi as it's protagonists.
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- runnerklaus
- 17.07.2019
Die Geschichte kommt ein wenig langatmig rüber. Die Kriegsabenteuer und der sehr gute Sprecher peppen die Story ein wenig auf.
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- mimi
- 23.06.2019
boring
usually I like Grisham from time to time but this is terrible. the story is boring and the reader sounds like he is struggling to keep the boredom out of his voice
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- thomas suermann
- 28.04.2019
Lange nicht so spannend wie andere Grishams
Story plätschert über größere Teile eher vor sich hin; im Ganzen unterhaltsam, aber nicht packend
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- oliver
- 28.03.2019
Good story but a bit lengthy
Good story but a bit lengthy. The ending is good but to get there simply took too long. Somehow J.G. still managed to build the story in a way that kept me interested to learn why Pete did it although I thought several times that it really needs to come to it's end.
Michael Beck is great.
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