Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008...11:25 pm
Next Book: The Appeal
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Author: John Grisham
A Mississippi jury returns a $41-million verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping carcinogenic waste into a small town’s water supply. The company’s ruthless billionaire CEO is thwarted and the good guys (a courageous young woman who lost her husband and child and her two lawyers who’ve gone half a million dollars in debt preparing her case) receives its just reward. This sounds like the end of a Grisham legal thriller, but instead it’s the beginning of a book-length lesson in how greed and big business have corrupted our electoral and judicial systems.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
[…] Entertainment News wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNext Book: The Appeal Author: John Grisham A Mississippi jury returns a $41-million verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping carcinogenic waste into a small town’s water supply. The company’s ruthless billionaire CEO is thwarted and the good guys (a courageous young woman who lost her husband and child and her two lawyers who’ve gone half a million dollars in debt preparing her case) receives its just reward. This sounds like the end of a Grisham legal thriller, but instead it’s […]
July 25th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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