The Appeal

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Money can buy you anything. Even a verdict. . .

In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a chemical company is declared guilty of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history.

Their only avenue is to appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will either approve the verdict or reverse it.

The company's owner wants a seat on the Court. His political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a potential Supreme Court justice.

Their Supreme Court justice.

And unless their scheme is exposed, the polluters will make a clean escape.

'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent

'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult

'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett


©2008 Belfry Holdings, Inc (P)2008 Random House Audiobooks

Critics Review

  • Recalling Dickens and other 19th century fiction. these contrasts between cuddly goodies and cartoon villain are schematic and manipulative. The author’s contempt for the soulless super-rich, previously evident in The King of Torts, does produce some telling satirical moments. Riveting.

    Sunday Times

  • What he does so well is to people his plots with clearly defined characters. Grisham’s been on a mission to highlight, if not right, the legal wrongs in America ever since he wrote The Innocent Man. In a country where justice is clearly for sale, he’s certainly got his task cut out. He makes it riveting.

    Mirror

  • A tense, thoughtful, absorbing read.

    The Times

  • As usual Grisham is fantastically skilful at delineating the procedural ins and outs of the legal and business worlds in such a way that, as the reader, you feel rather clever yourself.

    Daily Express

  • Reads both like an inspirational debut and a brilliant career masterpiece… Technically the book is a tour de force, the characters perfectly balanced and precisely drawn, the forward-thrusting chapters sculpted in size and rhythm… The Appeal is a blatant page turner but I guarantee you will hate reaching the end.

    Sunday Express

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