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The guardians

Autor: Grisham, John

Notka biograficzna

The Sunday Times bestseller from international bestseller John Grisham. `Grisham at his passionate best` - Daily Mail He was framed for murder. Now he needs a miracle. 22 years ago Quincy Miller was sentenced to life without parole. He was accused of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no reliable witnesses and little motive. Just the fact that Russo had botched Quincy`s divorce case, that Quincy was black in a largely all-white town and that a blood-splattered

torch was found in the boot of Quincy`s car. A torch he swore was planted. A torch that was conveniently destroyed in a fire just before his trial. The lack of evidence made no difference to judge or jury. In the eyes of the law Quincy was guilty and, no matter how often he protested his innocence, his punishment was life in prison. Finally, after 22 years, comes Quincy`s one and only chance of freedom. An innocence lawyer and minister, Cullen Post, takes on his case. Post has exonerated eight men in the last ten years. He intends to make Quincy the next. But there were powerful and ruthless people behind Russo`s murder. They prefer that an innocent man dies in jail rather than one of them. There`s one way to guarantee that. They killed one lawyer 22 years ago, and they`ll kill another without a second thought. Praise for John Grisham`s THE GUARDIANS: `A canny and engrossing blend of two types of Grisham novel: enough of the familiar formula of a single lawsuit in a single town, mixed with a more picaresque and multistranded approach that has the significant advantage of taking in a wider swathe of America` - The Sunday Times `Delivered with all his signature easy, flowing style. A past master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos, Grisham makes this a deceptively easy read` - Irish Independent `This is typical Grisham: speedy, gripping, very good at conveying the complexities of the law in a digestible wa [...]

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Grisham, John

John Grisham ur. 8 lutego 1955 w Jonesboro w stanie Arkansas – amerykański pisarz i prawnik, autor thrillerów prawniczych i kryminałów. W 1988 pojawił się jego pierwszy sądowy thriller Czas zabijania, nad którym pracował trzy lata, w nakładzie 5000 egzemplarzy. Jego druga powieść – Firma – w 1991 roku znalazła się na siódmym miejscu na liście bestsellerów. Tego samego roku zrezygnował z urzędu i od tego momentu pracował tylko jako pisarz. Do tej pory sprzedał ponad 60 milionów egzemplarzy swoich książek i jest jednym z trzech autorów, którzy sprzedali 2 miliony egzemplarzy [>>] pierwszego wydania poza nim J.K. Rowling i Tom Clancy. W 1992 roku powieść Raport Pelikana sprzedano w ponad 11 milionach egzemplarzy tylko w samych Stanach Zjednoczonych.

Źródło: wikipedia.org, lubimyczytac.pl

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