The Runaway Jury [antikvár]

Introduction"It's our job," Nicholas said. "We've been chosen to decide this case. It's'cJ-our responsibility to reach a verdict."A lawsuit is brought against Pynex, a tobacco company, by the widow of a man who smoked cigarettes all his life. The verdict is very important to both sides. They are prepared to influence the jury in any way that they can, and to spend a lot of money doing so. But they are not the only people involved in suspiciouse/lfj^o)}activities. One of the jurors, working with a mysterious woman outside the court, is also trying to control what the jury thinks and does. Why is he doing this, and who will win in the end?John Grisham was born in Arkansas, USA, in 1955, and grew up in a family of five children. He studied accounting and law in Mississippi, graduating in 1981.Grisham became a lawyer, but he was also involved in politics; in 1983 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. In 1984 he began to write his first book,y4 Time to Kill. His second book, The Firm, became a best-seUer and made him famous. Grisham was then able to give up law to become a writer. All his books have now been best-seUers and six of them have been made into movies. They are aU Penguin Readers.Grisham lives in Virginia and Mississippi with his wife and two children. He has sold over fifty-five million copies of his books worldwide, and is one of the world's most popular writers.