The runaway jury / John Grisham.
Summary:
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young 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?
Record details
- ISBN: 0385480164
- ISBN: 9780385480161
- ISBN: 0385339690
- ISBN: 9780385339698
- ISBN: 0440224411
- ISBN: 9780440224419
- ISBN: 0385472943
- ISBN: 9780385472944
- ISBN: 0440221471
- ISBN: 9780440221470
- ISBN: 9780345531940
- ISBN: 0345531949
- Physical Description: 401 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1996.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Size and pagination may vary. |
| Target Audience Note: | 930L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 8 23 14921. |
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| Subject: | Trials (Products liability) > Fiction. Jury > Fiction. Trials > Mississippi > Fiction. Biloxi (Miss.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Legal fiction (Literature) Thrillers (Fiction) |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Rockingham County Public Library.
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| Madison-Mayodan Public Library | Fic (Text) | 31554005088413 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Reidsville Library | Fic (Text) | 31554008681255 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young 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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