L´Heritage
Trouver cent mille dollars en billets de banque dans une maison vide... un rve ! C'est celui que vit Ray Atlee. Son pre vient de mourir, son frre n'est pas encore arrivé dans la demeure familiale; il est seul face l'argent. Mais trs vite, Ray découvre que ces sacs poubelle qu'il traîne partout derrire lui sont porteurs de mort. La question devient vitale : pourquoi son pre, un juge honnte et pauvre, avait-il chez lui une telle fortune ? John Grisham continue, livre aprs livre, de démonter les rouages les moins reluisants de la machine juridique américaine et jette aujourd'hui un éclairage implacable sur les procs en nom collectif. Normalement destinés rendre justice aux victimes des abus d'un mercantilisme cynique, ces procs peuvent se changer en curée, et leurs protagonistes en loups assoiffés de sang... ou plutôt de dollars. Un page turner" intelligent, qui appuie l o ça fait mal. --Ce texte fait référence l'édition Broché ."
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10,75 €
The Chamber
Adam Hall is a young lawyer with a huge Chicago law firm. He volunteers to defend a convicted murderer on Mississippi's Death Row - the toughest case of his career. His client is seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall accused of killing two Jewish children in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1967. Sam despises lawyers and wants to argue his final appeal alone. But Adam has a secret that will make the old man agree to anything ...John Grisham's four previous novels have all been number one best-sellers throughout the world.
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4,88 €
The Brethren
Three former judges are in prison. They call themselves the Brethren and organize a pen-pal scam. The money is pouring in. But then the Brethren contact the wrong pen-pal — a powerful man with dangerous friends.
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7,00 €
Confession
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row: his fate had been decided. Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Over 400 miles away in Kansas, Travis faces a fate of his own: an inoperable brain tumour will soon deliver the end. Reflecting on his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right. After years of silence he is ready to confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
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16,50 €
The Brethren
Trumble is a low security prison and three of its inmates are former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They spend hours planning crimes to make money outside the prison. But one of their scams goes wrong and traps an innocent victim, a man with dangerous friends. A daring thriller from a best-selling writer.
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4,68 €
The Chamber
The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi’s death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help?
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7,40 €
Associate
It's a deadly game of blackmail. And they're making him play. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley - they have a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him. The men make it clear to Kyle that he no longer owns his own future - that he must do as they tell him, or the video will be made public knowledge, with all the unpleasant consequences. What price do they demand for Kyle's secret?Strangely, it is for Kyle to do exactly what any ambitious young lawyer would want to do: take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world, a job that is incredibly well paid and, with mammoth hours and outrageous billing, could lead to partnership and a fortune. But Kyle won't be working for the company, but against it - passing on the secrets of the company's biggest trial to date, a dispute between two defense contractors worth billions of dollars to the victor. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him and the FBI, who would love to unmask the conspiracy. Will his intellect, cunning and bravery be enough to extricate him from an impossible dilemma? Full of twists and turns and reminiscent of The Firm", "The Associate" is vintage John Grisham."
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15,95 €
Das Urteil
Die ganze Welt wartet auf das Urteil von zwölf Geschworenen in einer kleinen Stadt in Mississippi Die Witwe eines Rauchers, der an Krebs gestorben ist, klagt auf Schadensersatz. Für die mächtigen Tabakkonzerne geht es um Milliarden.
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11,58 €
Runaway Jury
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 juror's increasingly odd behaviour. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more importantly, why?
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9,92 €
Der Gefangene
Erscheinungsjahr: 20082. Aufl.Übers. v. Bernhard Liesen, Bea Reiter, Kristiana Dorn-Ruhl u. a.Gewicht: 372 gr / Abmessung: 19 cmVon Grisham, John / Übersetzt v. Liesen, Bernhard, Reiter, Bea, Dorn-Ruhl, KristianaIn der Tradition von Truman Capotes »Kaltblütig« widmet sich John Grisham einem Kriminalfall, der erschütterndes Zeugnis ablegt über die Ungerechtigkeit eines modernen Rechtssystems. Brillant erzählt und getragen von großer Sympathie für seinen Helden, wird Ron Williamsons Schicksal zu einem packenden Thriller, der nicht mehr aus der Hand zu legen ist.
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12,31 €
Le Testament
Objet de toutes les convoitises, ce testament fascine tout le monde, sauf la principale intéressée : son héritire.
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12,78 €
King of Torts
The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he 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 D. C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He, suddenly, finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life - that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.
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7,99 €
Lacná kniha La Derniere Recolte (-90%)
Qui a besoin d'avocats ? Certainement pas John Grisham qui les a congédiés dans ce nouveau roman. A la place, on trouve des fermiers pitoyables, des ouvriers agricoles plus misérables encore et un petit garçon qui, sept ans, est le témoin unique de deux meurtres. Cet ouvrage raconte un été 54 dans une plantation de coton en difficulté du delta du Mississipi, et s'inspire de l'enfance de Grisham. --Ce texte fait référence l'édition Broché .
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1,24 €
12,41€
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L´Accuse
Ce matin de décembre 1982, la jeune Debbie Carter ,rît, étranglée et violée, au pied de son lit défait. La nouvelle pétrifie la petite ville d'Aria, perdue au cur de l'Oklahoma. Bientôt la fivre s'empare des services de police, jusqu'au délire. Comment expliquer que Gien (tore, dernire personne avoir vu la victime vivante, n'ait pas été soupçonné ? Pire: comment accorder du crédit sa seule version des faits Un innocent, Ron Willianson, va pâtir de ces grossires erreurs. Certes, son profil ne plaide pas en sa faveur : ancienne gloire locale du base-ball, alcoolique, dragueur invétéré et dépressif chronique, il fait un coupable idéal. Mais les charges sont minces. Faux témoignages, interrogatoires musclés, acharnement : le calvaire de Williamson durera douze ans avant qu'il ne soit arraché de justesse au couloir de la mort...
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11,35 €
Ford County Stories
When you are as securely at the top of the publishing tree (as John Grisham is), the temptation to simply relax and coast must be ever-present. But canny authors know that such laxity is not advisable if you don’t want your fan base to haemorrhage. And it’s clear that John Grisham – despite a few missteps recently (such as the period when he ill-advisedly let his born-again Christianity seep through into his novels), has tried to keep his writing fresh and vital. Ford County represents Grisham’s first foray into a form he has not tackled before, the short story, and it’s a challenging task (with the ghosts of such great American short story writers as F Scott Fitzgerald ever-hovering over the shoulder of any writer who attempts the form). But the range of subjects and characters tackled here is ambitious. The unexciting Sidney, an insurance company data collector, finesses his abilities at blackjack to take on the star player of a casino empire; the invalid Inez Graney and her two sons undertake a daunting odyssey to meet a relative who has been on death row for eleven years; three Ford County rednecks set out to give blood to an injured friend, but wind up in a Memphis strip joint. As these three stories (from a total of seven) suggest, John Grisham is clearly eager to spread his wings as a writer, and deal with more quirky areas of characterisation than he has tackled before. Some readers may wish that he had stayed in his familiar legal thriller territory, but real Grisham admirers will welcome this ambitious move. As in any short story collection, some entries are more successful than others, but everything here demonstrates solid accomplishment.
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7,95 €
Lacná kniha L'associé (-70%)
Les avocats Rapley, Ravarac, Vitrano et Bogan sont tr s mécontents : leur associé Patrick Lanigan a disparu avec la bagatelle de 90 millions de dollars. Lanigan est donné pour mort dans l´incendie de sa propre voiture, mais ce dramatique accident s´av re
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2,78 €
9,25€
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