The Runaway Jury, John Grisham
The Runaway Jury, John Grisham
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The Runaway Jury

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 14 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In “Grisham’s most addictive courtroom thriller” (The Seattle Times), justice is fighting for its life—and the jury is caught in the crossfire of greed and corruption.

They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the most explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him.

He is known only as Juror #2. But he has a name, a past, and he has planned his every move with the help of a beautiful woman on the outside. Now, while a corporate empire hangs in the balance, while a grieving family waits, and while lawyers are plunged into a battle for their careers, the truth about Juror #2 is about to explode.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on February 23, 2024

Another big court action against the tobacco industry is doomed to fail as usual with the powerful and highly effective consultant working for the 'big four' tobacco companies using any means necessary to prevent any anti-tobacco legal precedents. Unknown to them another group has been actively tryi......more

Goodreads review by David on November 02, 2018

Saw the movie before reading the book and glad it closely followed the story written by Grisham. They did one minor change, or a major one depending on one's perspective. In the book the lawsuit was aimed at the tobacco industry. The movie targets the gun industry, both powerful industries. When a fa......more

Goodreads review by Ben on June 28, 2015

Nicholas Easter, juror number 2 and a mysterious woman known as Marlee conspire to manipulate the jury to secure a verdict in a landmark trial involving a widow plaintiff (whose husband died of lung cancer because of cigarette addiction) and a big tobacco company. They have to play with both sides (......more

Goodreads review by ALLEN on September 15, 2019

This is not my favorite John Grisham novel, nor has it aged particularly well since the mid-1990s, when it was first published. The story of a major products-liability contest that pits Big Tobacco vs. Plaintiffs' Rights, in John Grisham's knowledgeable hands, becomes a story not so much of good ver......more

Goodreads review by PowerAvocado on October 22, 2024

I love The Firm but better for me to forget this one. I didn't care about characters and the story is dull.......more

Quotes

“Grisham stacks his Jury with suspense. . . . Don’t start it unless you are prepared to stay up all night.”—Los Angeles Times

“Deserves to be a runaway success.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A story of genuine significance . . . entertainingly unpredictable.”—The New York Times

“Marvelously clever . . . Grisham is one of the few writers who accurately and empathetically describes working-class Americans of all races and both sexes.”—USA Today

“Fascinating. . . Grisham does a solid job of cutting between the action in the courtroom. . . . [He] also gives a good primer on the psychology of juries.”—Chicago Tribune

“Grisham provides enough suspense to make the pages fly.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Grisham’s strength lies in his narrative ability. The story is tightly plotted, with several neat twists at the end.”—The Plain Dealer

“Both intellectually and emotionally satisfying . . . It’s a thriller for people who think.”—Publishers Weekly

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