The Runaway Jury: A Novel

ISBN: 0385472943

Author: Grisham, John

Condition: New

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him.In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris 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 jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important, why?Dont miss John Grishams new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

• First Edition (stated). DOUBLEDAY & CO., NY 1996. This action packed legal thriller, Runaway Jury, was made into a movie and directed by Gary Fleder which starred Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusak, and Rachel Weisz. The book is set in Biloxi, Mississippi where the landmark tobacco trial begins routinely, but then begins to swerve mysteriously off course as the jury begins to act strangely. The trial is being manipulated in some way, and, if so how, why, and by whom?