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Paperback | Pages: 358 pages Rating: 3.98 | 256771 Users | 2030 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Runaway Jury |
| Author | : | John Grisham |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 358 pages |
| Published | : | April 25th 2006 by Delta (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Suspense |
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Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake 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 importantly, why?
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| Original Title: | The Runaway Jury |
| ISBN: | 0385339690 (ISBN13: 9780385339698) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.jgrisham.com/books/the-runaway-jury/ |
| Characters: | Wendall Rohr, Celeste Wood, Nicholas Easter, Rankin Fitch |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 256771 Users | 2030 ReviewsEvaluate Based On Books The Runaway Jury
'The Runaway Jury' by John Grisham is a fun legal-thriller romp (as in a scathing tongue-in-cheek exposé) which follows a court case from beginning to end (thankfully very much simplified to basics if, gentle reader, one wants only a beach read). It is an interesting look at what very likely occurs sometimes in the selection of voters called in to report for a particular case for jury duty, even if the story wanders into wish-fulfillment/fantasy territory, imho.The case being heard by theI actually, started this book long back but due to some unknown reasons I left it in the middle, but once I resumed I found it very much interesting!! It is indeed a powerful legal story, which introduces the legal system of America to foreigners!!The Runaway Jury is an intensely suspensefullegal thriller. I could feel my heart pounding asI read the last pages of the book. I wasmesmerized by Grisham's narration. The booktackles a lot of important points aboutcigarette smoking which make the
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads. John Grisham, The Runaway JuryLoved it. Devoured it in one sitting. Movie was great too but book is better.I love to read about Juries. And in this book, we have a doozy of a jury! I have always been fascinated by what happens between Jurors, and the book absolutely gives so much meat to chew on.It is fast paced, action packed and exciting. Never a dull moment. This book is one of Grisham's
4.5*I loved this book.I thought it was a little long, and at times I got bored, which I justified by putting myself is in the shoes of those poor jurors who spent all that time in court. Besides, the unraveling of Marlee's secret wasn't that great. I don't know; it seems a little flimsy. Her parents died of lung cancer because they smoked, so she spends her adult life and her inheritance making tobacco companies pay. We also don't really know why Nicholas/Jeff goes along with this, the whole
Another Grisham legal thriller successfully concluded.This is definitely one of the author's most exciting and unusual books. I think, in part, because those who have never served on a jury always wonder what exactly goes on behind those closed doors. They will never find out, though, because most countries have laws protecting the deliberations from being made public. So, we will never know whether an irresponsible jury just flipped a coin for the verdict, or whether they decided they didn't
The Runaway Jury might have worked as fantasy but as a legal thriller set on planet Earth is not merely outlandish or asinine. It is bat shit crazy. Grisham doesn't have any inkling to how willing suspension of disbelief works. It works as long as the in-story logic is sound. So in a Superman story I might believe in a flying alien but I will scream bad writing when he survives Kryptonite, which supposedly kills him. But nothing that happens here could really work except in some La La Land, so
I'm glad I didn't pay for this book. Our apartment building has a bookcase in front of the elevator, and someone in the building must be a Grisham fan, because I've picked up several of his books from the communal bookcase. This is the worst of the Grishams that I've read.What annoyed me the most was the sheer implausibility of the whole story. The civil tobacco trial itself was plausible enough, but the jury foreman protagonist and his accomplice on the outside have a plan to influence the
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