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Physical Info: 1.6" H x 9.4" L x 6.1" W (1.85 lbs) 496 pages. Features: Excerpt, Ikids, Price on Product. Initial Print Run: 250000. First Printing w/number line. Blue boards, black cloth spine w/gold foil letters. Mustard paste downs. DJ illustration by Ellis Chappel. Author photo by Marion & Silber. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not ex-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Toning on back side of DJ. Quiz # (Quiz Name): 17846 (Time to Kill); Reading Level: 5.2; Interest Level: Upper Grade; Point Value: 23.0 In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in the small southern town of Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle --and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life.and then his own.

John Grisham's first novel, a gripping legal thriller about a young attorney and the racial injustice in the Southern United States.