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Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobacco-company case in Biloxi, and the jury's packed with people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but they soon realize that he in turn is controlled by an even more mysterious young woman. Lives careen off course as they bend everyone in the case to their will.
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Grisham is either remarkably prescient or just plain lucky; because with public concerns about the tobacco companies heating up, and two major nonfiction books currently garnering a lot of attention, he has come up with a tobacco-suit novel that lights up the courtroom. In a Mississippi Gulf Coast town, the widow of a lifelong smoker who died prematurely of lung cancer is suing Big Tobacco. Enter Rankin Fitch, a dark genius of jury fixing, who has won many such trials for the tobacco companies and who foresees no special problems here. Enter also a mysterious juror, Nicholas Easter, whom Fitch's army of jury investigators and manipulators can't quite seem to track-and his equally mysterious girlfriend Marlee, who soon shows Fitch she knows even more about what's happening in the jury room than he does. The details of jury selection are fascinating and the armies of lawyerly hangers-on and overpaid consultants that surround such potentially profitable (to either side) cases are horribly convincing. The cat-and-mouse game played between Nicholas, Marlee and Fitch over the direction of the jury quickly becomes hair-raising as the stakes inch ever higher. As usual with Grisham, the writing is no more than workmanlike, the characterizations are alternatively thin and too broad, but all is redeemed by his patented combination of expertise and narrative drive. What makes The Runaway Jury his most rewarding novel to date is that it is fully enlisted in an issue of substance, in which arguments of genuine pith are hammered out and resolved in a manner that is both intellectually and emotionally satisfying. It's a thriller for people who think, and Jesse Helms won't like it one bit. First printing of 2.8 million; major ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection. (May) ~ Mystery
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Questionable Adaptations,
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This review is from: The Runaway Jury (Mass Market Paperback)
The fact that this book is an excellent allegory of the sleaze that is Big Tobacco seems to have escaped the people at FOX, who adapted the book to be the same story, but about guns. Why would the story be changed so significantly? While this book is excellent, the movie whose poster detail adorns the cover of the new edition should be viewed as a questionable, at best, use of the medium of film to divert attention from the issue of Tobacco to the issue of Gun rights. This might just be another case of a movie that shouldn't be seen to avoid spoiling the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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GREAT BOOK THAT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE MOVIE,
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This review is from: The Runaway Jury (Mass Market Paperback)
Okay, I decided to read this book before I went to see the movie today. I just finished the book up a couple days ago and, as usual, this is an excellent book from John Grisham. Now, I won't give away too much, but I love the way he chose the tobacco industry as the villian. It's both relevant and in tune with what's happening in the real world with the lawsuits against big tobacco. And the two main characters in this book are easy to relate to. Grisham makes you feel like you are a part of the story and of their lives. You really feel bad for what the tobacco industry lawyers consultant does to these people. Anyways, before I give away too much. The movie basically takes out the tobacco industry and replaces it with the gun industry. And as usual the movie takes some liberties, but is still good. I definitely suggest reading the book first to get the full scope of what really goes on.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Do not read this book,
By DDavis "DDavis" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Runaway Jury (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a great book! I loved it! NOW I AM SICK! SICK AND TIRED OF THE MOVIES BEING CHANGED. The book and the movie obviously are about a different topic. Hollywood has come in and changed the plot. Do the tobacco companies have that great a hold on Hollywood. Were they that afraid. I was counting the days until the movie, but now will not go. This book has a great message, but I will not read another Grisham book because he apparently has no control over how Hollywood changes and dilutes his message.
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