Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi — a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Trois juges. Trois anciens notables déchus. Trois hommes vieillissants enfermés dans la même prison. On se souvient à peine du motif de leur condamnation. Ils passent leur temps dans la bibliothèque du camp de détention à écrire et à lire du courrier. Et ils écrivent beaucoup. D'étranges lettres, adressées à des correspondants qui…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. When Clay Carter reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington DC.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a «good…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die, His heirs, to no one's surprise especially Troy's — are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, he is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm he chose was small, but-well respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage. Now the house, the car and the job are his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there. Shockwaves that will see her boyfriend atomised in a bomb blast,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: A legal thriller from the author of THE PELICAN BRIEF, THE CLIENT and THE FIRM, about what goes on behind the scenes when a jury retires to deliberate and decide whether the accused is innocent or guilty.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Every Jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and a 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Rudy Taylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case a lone, to save himself from his mounting debts. It is a bad faith case against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young mans life, but has instead refused to pay the claim until it is too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: This book is John Grishams first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland As, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years…