FORD COUNTY

By John Grisham

Synopsis

John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. Featuring a vivid cast of attorneys, crooks, hustlers, and convicts he paints a unique picture of lives lived and lost in Mississippi.

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Narrator	John Grisham
Length	8hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	9714
Publisher	Random House Audio

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THE ASSOCIATE

Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation. But a secret from his past threatens to destroy his fledgling career, and possibly his entire life.

THE BOYS FROM BILOXI

For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, drugs . . . even contract killings. The vice was controlled by a small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumoured to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith's father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to 'clean up the Coast.' Hugh's father became the 'Boss' of Biloxi's criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father's footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father's clubs. The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom.

THE BRETHREN

The Brethren are three judges serving time in a minimum security prison. They devise a mail scam, but when it goes wrong and ensnares the wrong victim their quiet days are over!

THE CHAMBER

Adam Hill is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm when he volunteers to take on an unrepentant racist with a violent past. Why does Adam want this case so desperately and why would the accused take on a novice to defend him? The answer lies in the past.

THE FIRM

Mitchell McDeere, fresh out of Harvard, has his dream job with a small but well-respected law firm. When he discovers a trail of secret files, illegal mob money and a shocking conspiracy the dream turns into a nightmare.

THE GUARDIANS

For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row, convicted of the murder of Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. The lack of evidence made no difference to judge or jury. An innocence lawyer, Cullen Post, decides to take on his case. But there were powerful and ruthless people behind Russo's murder. They killed one lawyer 22 years ago, and they'll kill another one without a second thought...

THE INNOCENT MAN

Although a work of non-fiction, this is probably one of Grisham's most extraordinary legal thrillers. In 1982 a cocktail waitress was murdered in Ada, Oklahoma. The prosecution case was based on junk science, but Ron Williamson and Denis Fritz were convicted. Grisham re-investigates the whole case.

THE KING OF TORTS

When public Defender, Clay Carter, takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing he assumes it will be a routine investigation, but as he searches for evidence he stumbles across a chilling conspiracy involving a huge pharmaceutical company.

THE LAST JUROR

Danny Padgett was convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned. Some years later, after his release, jurors who sentenced him start being executed. Danny is the obvious suspect, but a young newspaper editor is committed to discovering the truth.

A PAINTED HOUSE

September 1952 and the cotton crop looks good on the Chanlers' farm. As usual a truckload of Mexicans help with the harvest. Seven year old Luke Chandler sees and hears things that threaten the crop and will change the Chandlers' lives forever.

THE PARTNER

Six weeks after lawyer Patrick Lanigan dies in a car crash, 90 million dollars disappears from the law firm in which he was a partner. His colleagues realise that he must still be alive and are determined to find him!

THE PELICAN BRIEF

Darby Shaw, a brilliant New Orleans legal student, draws up a brief linking the murders of two Supreme Court justices, but when her boyfriend is killed in a car bomb incident she realizes that someone will stop at nothing to silence her.

THE RUNAWAY JURY

A huge tobacco company case in Biloxi seems to swerve off-course and at least one juror thinks he is being watched. Soon the jury have to be sequestered amid suspicions that they are being manipulated. The question is why and by whom?

SKIPPING CHRISTMAS

When their daughter flies to Peru for two years, Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas. No cards; no presents; no fruit cakes: no rooftop Frostie or Christmas Eve drinks parties - instead Luther and Nora were leaving for a Caribbean cruise. But as time goes on they realise that skipping Christmas isn't as easy as they thought!

SPARRING PARTNERS

Three thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller. Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford. In Strawberry Moon, we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. The Sparring Partners are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe one another and as the firm disintegrates, the fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time and try to save herself?

THE STREET LAWYER

Michael, rising star at law firm Drake & Sweeney has a violent encounter with a homeless man. When his assailant dies, Michael tries to find out about him and discovers a dark secret that also involves Drake & Sweeney!

THE SUMMONS

A sick, old man, Judge Atlee summons his two sons, Ray and Forrest, home to discus his estate. He dies before Ray arrives leaving Ray to discover a shocking secret, but who else knows?

THE TESTAMENT

Troy Phelan, a self-made billionaire: Nate O'Riley, a high-octane Washington lawyer and Rachel Lane, a young woman working with the Indians in the Brazilian jungle. These three lives are altered forever by the startling secret of The Testament.

A TIME TO KILL

When Carl Lee Hailey kills the two white hoodlums who raped his ten year old child, an angry mob forms in the Mississippi town of Clanton. Defence lawyer, Jake Brigance, finds himself defending his life and his family as well as his client.