Description
Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks. At twenty-three he was already a three-year veteran of the state penitentiary at Parchman. Possession, with intent to sell. He was a lean, tough little punk who had survived prison by somehow maintaining a ready supply of drugs that he sold and sometimes gave to the blacks and the guards for protection. In the year since his release he had continued to prosper, and his small-time narcotics business had elevated him to the position of one of the more affluent rednecks in Ford County.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. 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…
Azita Bokan –
when you think he can’t do better than the book of his you reading. here goes another great publication that takes you to the heart of the story, makes you think….John you are un-real. keep it up, I am waiting for another story.
nera –
an AMAZING book! upon reading, you’ll find yourself sharing the same animosity the father felt for Billy Ray Cobb.. I was really into the story that after reading the book i promised to check out all the other John Grisham books!