A TIME TO KILL by John Grisham

Finished Su 3/8/2020

I bought this paperback at the library sale on Sa 1/11/2020. I recently read, 'SYCAMORE ROW' not too long ago. This was the novel that Grisham re-visits characters from Grisham's first novel, A TIME TO KILL. I tried to get the Netflix disc, but it's not available.

PREMISE:

A ten year old black girl is raped and beaten by two drunk and stoned white men. The girl's father gets a weapon, hides in the court, and then kills the two men and wounds a cop. Both men are killed and the guard loses part of his leg.

Jake Brigance tries to establish 'The McNaughton Defense'; Innocent by reason of insanity. 

This stirs up Mississippi KKK terrorists and they burn down Jake's house, and assault many people connected with the case.

One of the women on the jury asks her fellow jurists to shut their eyes and imagine a young white girl raped and beaten by two black men. This allows the jury to acquit the black girl's father of murder.

The end of the book frees the father, but you wonder what would happen. Would the KKK just fold and forget? I doubt it.

I liked the book and all of Grisham's novels. It's hard to believe that this is a 'first' novel.