Starring the same hero and setting that featured in John Grisham's multi-million-selling bestsellers A Time to Kill (adapted as a film starring Samuel L. But, as the town of Clanton discovers once again, when Jake Brigance takes on an impossible case, anything is possible. Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case but he's the only one with enough experience to defend the boy.Īs the trial begins, it seems there is only one outcome: the gas chamber for Drew. In Clanton, Mississippi, there is no one more hated than a cop killer - but a cop killer's defence lawyer comes close. He picks up a gun and takes the law into his own hands. Her son, sixteen-year-old Drew, knows he only has this one chance to save them.

Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him.īut one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. suspenseful' - New York Timesĭeputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat' - Daily Mail There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance - they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations. 'A new Grisham legal thriller is always an event, but this one is exceptional as the author is returning to Jake Brigance, the hero of his very first book, A Time To Kill. Since then, nearly a dozen of his books have been adapted as films, including “The Pelican Brief,” “Runaway Jury,” and “The Chamber.Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back, in his toughest case ever. “A Time to Kill” was Grisham’s first novel but not the first to be adapted for the screen, with that being “The Firm” starring Tom Cruise. McConaughey is repped by WME and Morris Yorn.

He is also known for his roles in films like “Dazed and Confused,” “Magic Mike,” “Interstellar,” and “Amistad.” He was previously set to re-team with “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto for a series at FX, but that project is no longer moving forward.

McConaughey is no stranger to HBO audiences, having received an Emmy nomimation for his time on the hit first season of the premium cabler’s police drama “True Detective.” He won the Academy Award for best actor for his role in the film “Dallas Buyers Club” in 2013. According to sources, no writer is currently attached to adapt the book, but Lorenzo Di Bonaventura is onboard as an executive producer.

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