John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. 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. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and 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. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.

"Building a remarkable degree of suspense . . . Grisham delivers his savviest book in years."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"A novel that could become its own era-defining classic. John Grisham holds up that same mirror to our age as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities."--The Boston Globe

"An intricately detailed, involving story . . . The ending may surprise you."--People

"Stirring popular fiction that doubles as an important public-service announcement."--Entertainment Weekly

"Packs a wallop."--USA Today

"A clever story and thoughtful plot . . . Grisham confronts in stark relief the dangers of electing judges in an era of big-money politics."--Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer

Publisher: Vintage

Pub date: 2008-11-18

Length: 496 pages