![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t help his bank book when the meaningfully named Judge Omar Noose orders him to defend the kid. Jake Brigance, the hero of the tale, is a lawyer who’s down to his last dime until a fat wrongful-death case is settled. “Did it really matter if he was sixteen or sixty? It certainly didn’t matter to Stu Kofer, whose stock seemed to rise by the hour,” writes Grisham of local opinion about giving Drew the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately for the kid in a place where uniforms are worshipped, Stu was a well-liked cop. He’s done terrible things to her children, too-and now her 16-year-old boy, Drew, puts an end to the terror. One night, coming home in a foul mood with a blood alcohol count more than triple the legal limit, he breaks his live-in girlfriend’s jaw. He drinks way too much and likes to brawl. A small-town Mississippi courtroom becomes the setting for a trademark Grisham legal tussle. ![]()
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