![]() ![]() My reaction is not to the small amount of legal elements in the story, as Grisham has become an excellent novelist in the last few decades. I can’t understand why Grisham published this book. I have read every John Grisham adult novel since A Time to Kill and have reviewed many on Amazon. In a great novel the likes of which he has never written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II from an insane asylum full of secrets to the Clanton courtroom, where Pete’s defense attorney is desperate to save him. ![]() Pete’s only statement on the matter, to the sheriff, his attorneys, the judge, the jury and his family, was, “I have nothing to say.” Then, one crisp October morning, he got up early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete Banning was the favorite son of Clanton, Mississippi: a distinguished World War II hero, patriarch of a prominent family, farmer, father, neighbor, and staunch member of the Methodist Church. ![]()
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