Джон Ґрішем — американський письменник, юрист. Сукупний наклад його творів перевищує 275 мільйонів примірників (2012), вони перекладені 42 мовами світу. Романи Ґрішема лягли в основу чотирьох серіалів та десяти фільмів за участю голлівудських зірок.
Книги Джона Ґрішема
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Англійська мова
Reggie Love has only been practising law for five years, but she agrees to represent Mark pro bono, knowing she's his best hope for survival. Against the twin threats of the cold-hearted American state and the schemes of a cold-blooded killer, Reggie must fight the case of her life.
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Англійська мова
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years in a federal prison.
Unknown to an outraged public, the pardon was the CIA's idea. They claim that Backman may have obtained
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Англійська мова
25th Anniversary edition of the bestselling legal thriller – now with a new introduction from John Grisham.
When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. Bendini, Lambert and Locke were a small, well-respected firm, but their offer
Рік видання: 2017-2022 Категорія: Англійська мова
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Англійська мова
They kidnapped him in a small town in Brazil. He had changed his name and appearance, but they were sure they had their man.
Four years before, he had been called Patrick S. Lanigan. He had died in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. He had been
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Художня література іноземними мовами
David Zinc has it all: Big firm, big salary, life in the lawyer's fast lane.
Until the day he snaps and throws it all away.
Leaving the world of corporate law far behind, he talks himself into a new job with Finley & Figg. A self-styled 'boutique' firm with only two partners, Oscar Finley and Wally
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Англійська мова
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved.
But one woman might have found the answer.
Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been murdered for political
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Англійська мова
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my
Рік видання: 2010 Категорія: Англійська мова
One case. One chance. One man against the world.
Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer, forced into ambulance-chasing by bad luck and poor job prospects. Unexpectedly, he winds up on a case representing a family whose son was denied insurance cover for his leukemia treatment. Instead, the
Рік видання: 2014 Категорія: Художня література іноземними мовами
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid.
The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only
Рік видання: 2008 Категорія: Англійська мова
The stakes in the novel's plot are high: corporate crime on the largest scale. The duo of lawyers at the centre of the narrative are Mary and Wes Grace, who succeed in a multimillion dollar case against a chemical company, who have polluted a town with dumped toxic waste. A slew of agonising
Рік видання: 2017-2022 Категорія: Англійська мова
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him.
Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body where it would never be found, then watched and waited as
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Англійська мова
Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's
Рік видання: 2009 Категорія: Англійська мова
When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the monsters who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal.
But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Англійська мова
Adam Hill is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentent and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish
Рік видання: 2011 Категорія: Англійська мова
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a
Рік видання: 2018 Категорія: Художня література іноземними мовами
In his unforgettable new novel, John Grisham tells the story of an unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial that followed it, and its profound and lasting effect on the people of Ford County.
Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer,
Рік видання: 2012 Категорія: Художня література іноземними мовами
Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes are higher than ever.
When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone - who knows April better than anyone - has answers.
As fear ripples through his small hometown and the
Рік видання: 2016 Категорія: Детектив. Трилер
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When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. Bendini, Lambert and Locke were a small, well-respected firm, but their offer exceeded Mitch's wildest expectations: a fantastic salary, a new home, and the keys to a brand
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Біографія Джона Ґрішема
Отримав економічну та юридичну освіту в Університеті штату Міссісіпі. Десять років працював юристом, входив до місцевої Палати представників, після чого зосередився на літературній творчості.
Перша книга «Час убивати» (1984) не знайшла свого видавця, але другий роман «Фірма» (1987) став бестселером та започаткував успіх автора.
Здобув популярність завдяки своїм «юридичним триллерам». Роман «Фірма» проданий багатомільйонним накладом, у однойменній екранізації головну роль зіграв Том Круз.
Творчий доробок складають десятки книг, зокрема: «Клієнт» (1993), «Благодійник» (1995), «Різдво з невдахами» (2001), «Трибуни» (2003), «Останній присяжний» (2004), «Округ Форд» (2010), «Визнання» (2010).
Українською перекладено: «Адвокат негідників», «Фірма», «Острів Каміно», «Інформатор», «Рекетир».
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