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A Time to Kill [AUDIOBOOK]
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Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Bestseller Collection S.) [AUDIOBOOK]
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The Day of the Jackal [AUDIOBOOK]
The Client [AUDIOBOOK]
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The Odessa File [AUDIOBOOK]
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Death Du Jour [AUDIOBOOK]
Unnatural Exposure [AUDIOBOOK]
Friends in High Places [AUDIOBOOK]
An Instance of the Fingerpost [AUDIOBOOK]
The Final Judgement [AUDIOBOOK]
The Testament [AUDIOBOOK]
Harm Done: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery [AUDIOBOOK]
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me [AUDIOBOOK]
Past Due
The Babes in the Wood [AUDIOBOOK]
Bare Bones [AUDIOBOOK]
Grave Secrets [AUDIOBOOK]
Hannibal [AUDIOBOOK]

John Grisham Value Collection: A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Client (John Grishham)

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Good listening, shoddy packaging
GREAT VALUE COLLECTION FROM GRISHAM
Great airplane/road trip listen!
GRRREEAAATTTTT!!!!!!!!!
A TIME TO KILL

John Grisham Value Collection: A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Client (John Grishham)
John Grisham
Manufacturer: RH Audio
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 0739312642
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Book Description

Three thrilling titles from one of America's most popular bestselling authors, together in a special value collection.

A Time to Kill - For ten days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...

The Firm - When Mitch McDeere, an ambitious law student from Harvard chooses the Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, he finds himself caught between the FBI, who wants an informant inside the firm, and the firm itself, which will make him a very rich man-or a very dead one.

The Client - This is the story of eleven-year-old Mark Sway, who witnessed the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Just before he dies, the lawyer tells Mark a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose accused killer, Mafia thug Barry Muldanno, is about to go to trial.

Customer Reviews:

Good listening, shoddy packaging.......2007-04-24

I always enjoy Grisham's way with words & a story, even if they're dated, & the three readers plus the fade out music are enthralling, however, RandomHouse Audio made a booboo with the packaging I received. The Firm discs (4-6) are correctly labeled & slotted, while A Time to Kill (discs 1-3) & The Client (discs 7-11) are mislabeled & mis-slotted. Bummer, especially if you're driving while listening.

GREAT VALUE COLLECTION FROM GRISHAM.......2005-09-06

I HAD SEEN ALL OF THESE IN MOVIE FORM AND WANTED TO SEE HOW CLOSE THE MOVIE SCRIPT WAS TO EACH GRISHAM NOVEL IN THIS COLLECTION. THEY WERE REALLY CLOSE TO THE REAL GRISHAM! BUT AGAIN HOW CAN YOU IMPROVE ON GRISHAM'S WORK? I ENJOYED ALL THREE
AND ESPECIALLY THE READERS WITH THEIR INFLECTIONS! THEY SOUNDED
ALMOST LIKE THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIES. ANYTHING GRISHAM
HAS IN AUDIO I WILL CERTAINLY OBTAIN. THANKS TO AMAZON FOR YOUR WONDERFUL WEB SITE TO PURCHASE SUCH GREAT PRODUCTS.

Great airplane/road trip listen!.......2005-08-03

I had seen all these movies, so I thought I'd give this set a chance. The price is a steal! All 3 narrators do an excellent job, and the stories will certainly keep your attention. I would recommend this especially for trips. I plan to buy more John Grisham audio books in the future!

GRRREEAAATTTTT!!!!!!!!!.......2004-05-12

The book's setting is in a small town in Mississippi. Tonya, one day, went for a walk to the town market to fetch some things for her mother. On her way home, two men pick her up. They take her to the woods and rape her. When they're done the leave her on a bridge, beat up and ready to die. She is later returned to her family by a group of black fishermen. Tonya's father, Carl Lee, decides he needs to get revenge for his daughter. So when they are in court about this whole thing, Carl Lee catches the men in a stairwell ant the courthouse and blows them away with an M-16. The fight now is if Carl Lee is guilty or not. He has to face an all white court (whom are prejudice) and plead not guilty. We'll see what happens

A TIME TO KILL.......2000-10-05

NICK FRANCISCO PERIOD 2

"A Time to Kill" is John Grisham's first novel. His fluid, detailed storytelling is unlike the choppy first attempts of many modern authors.In a small town in the Deep South, two redneck hooligans rape and maim a ten-year-old black girl. Enraged, the girl's father, Carl Lee Hailey, takes justice into his own hands, killing the two rapists in a courthouse shooting. He seeks the help of defense lawyer Jake Brigance to save him from the gas chamber.

Brigance, a young but sharp lawyer, has to find a way to win an impossible case: a black man is on trial for killing two white men, and his case is being heard by an all-white jury. Adding to the mix are violence between the Ku Klux Klan and the black community, and the fact that, during the shooting, Carl Lee had injured a sheriff's deputy.

When I first read this novel, I was angered and irritated by the depth of hatred that exists within racism. I was angered that had Carl Lee been a white man bent on avenging his daughter's suffering, he would never have had to face trial. The rape of ten year old Tanya, Carl Lee's daughter, by Billy Ray and Pete, A Time to Kill is a disturbing novel, aside from the raping and killing that opens the tale. It is not possible to look at our justice system the same way, especially from the viewpoint of the black community in the South.

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I love this book! Just perfect!!
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Impressive First Novel

A Time to Kill (John Grishham)
John Grisham
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
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ASIN: 0553712640
Release Date: 2001-05-15

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This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.

The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo

Amazon.com Audiobook Review

With a chillingly calm, even delivery, Michael Beck, a regular Grisham reader (The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury), turns the narrative of this disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality into an almost visceral experience. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly crafted around a horrible crime and the tragic consequences that follow. At times, Beck's character voices can be distracting, but his efforts are generally applied to good effect, adding another level of tension to this already suspenseful look at a small Mississippi town's struggle for justice. (Running time: 17 hours, 12 cassettes) --George Laney

Book Description

Three CDs, 3 hrs.
Performance by Michael Beck

In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...
Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...

Customer Reviews:

An excellent book.......2007-05-26

I loved this book. It was the second Grisham novel I read, after reading the Pelican Brief. It began slow, but I knew that if I was patient the story would pick up and it really picked up. I thought I knew exactly how the story was going to end, but it ended with a twist that I never expected. Grisham is brillant and I highly recommend reading this book.

I love this book! Just perfect!!.......2007-04-04

I Liked A Time to Kill! I was really perfect! It was so beleaveable and so compelling! It really makes you think about these sorts of issue, Plus i am a legal junkie! He did do any pet peaves that other writers used to! I Looooove this book!

Not good.......2007-03-31

The used copy I purchased for more than half the original price was so old and dirty that I had to throw it away. I have since purchased a new copy from Walden Books.

4.5 stars.......2006-12-28

Well as usual the book is WAY better than the movie. Looks likes this one is Grisham's first novel and I see why people fell in love with him so fast! I've seen the movie and there are some pretty glaring differences but that just makes the book even better. I find out that one of Samuel Jackson's most famous lines isn't even in the book....

Anyway... I loved this book like I love all of Grisham's novels! Extremely fast paced, twisting and emotional plot, and humor that comes out of nowhere to catch you off guard and laughing despite yourself. Since everyone knows this story I won't get into that, all I'll say that this is a MUST for every Grisham fan and a great one to start with if you aren't.

Impressive First Novel.......2006-12-23

This book is not only entertaining, but informative as well. I gained much interesting information that I did not previously know about the legal system. As Grisham says in his introduction, the book does ramble at times, and it does take some effort to continue at first, but the last 150 or so pages make up for this greatly. I would doubtlessly recommend this book to anyone interested with the legal system, and inquisitive as to how it works and runs.

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