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The Chamber
John Grisham

The Chamber

Doubleday (Jun 01, 1994)
9780385424721
| Hardcover
486 pages | 159 x 241 mm | English
Dewey 813/.54
LC Classification PS3557.R5355 .C47 1994
LC Control No. 94011764

Genre

  • Legal Stories

Subject

  • Bombings
  • Bombings/ Fiction
  • Civil Rights Movements/ Fiction
  • Death Row Inmates
  • Death Row Inmates/ Fiction

Plot

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • "A dark and thoughtful tale... Grisham is at his best." —PeopleIn the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life... or cost Adam his.Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!