![]() ![]() ![]() Set five years after Jake Brigance successfully defended Carl Lee Hailey in the events of A Time to Kill, we return to the dusty streets of 1990 Clanton, Mississippi – and much of Clanton’s residents – for another legal adventure that pushes the moral mettle of our heroic defense attorney to the breaking point in a rapidly changing South. ![]() A less preachy, entertaining Grisham novel is always preferable to the alternative. It may sound like faint praise, but the latest in the continuing saga of Jake Brigance is more standard-issue Grisham legal thriller than one with loftier ambitions, and this is fine. It was something different from an author who’d become almost predictable by that point, and one of his very best efforts.Ī Time for Mercy, the third in Grisham’s Jake Brigance series, never quite rises to the level of its predecessor in scope or execution, the dueling cases facing Jake this time around never quite feel as vital or satisfying as they should. Grisham not only brought with him decades of experience crafting some of the most timely – and cinematic – lawyerly novels of his generation, but a better sense of pacing and the confidence of a storyteller at the top of his game. ![]() 2013’s Sycamore Row, John Grisham’s first sequel to A Time to Kill (and first-ever sequel at the time) was a superior effort to the lawyer-turned-author’s 1989 celebrated debut. ![]()
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