Sparring Partners: The Number One Sunday Times bestseller - The new collection of gripping legal stories - Softcover

Grisham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399708430 ISBN 13: 9781399708432

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2023

Synopsis

THREE STORIES. THREE CRIMES. WILL JUSTICE PREVAIL?

Is the law always black and white? These stories show the shades of grey...

Jake Brigance has a choice to make: help an old friend who stole money from his clients or turn him over to the police?

Cody Wallace is three hours away from his execution. There will be no last-minute requests for mercy. But as the clock ticks down, will Wallace get his dying wish?

Kirk and Rusty Malloy are feuding lawyers and partners. As their business disintegrates, they turn to hotshot lawyer Diantha Bradshaw to help save them: but how much can they trust each other - and her?

💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER 💥

Readers love Sparring Partners:

'Gripping, full of twists and turns' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'All three tales are very compelling reads!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Great short stories' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'John Grisham never fails to deliver' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A page turner' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

About this title

About the Author

Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill.

His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.

He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

From the Back Cover

Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole some money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. Until now. Now Mack is back and he's leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned.

In Strawberry Moon, we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can't save him, the courts slam the door, and the Governor says no to a last minute request for clemency. As the clock ticks down, Cody has only one final request.

The Sparring Partners are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe one another, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time and try to save herself?

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399708430
• ISBN 13: 9781399708432
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352