A Time to Kill
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- For the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel authored by David Mack, see A Time to Kill (TNG novel).
A Time to Kill is the name of a legal suspense thriller authored by John Grisham in 1989. Grisham's first novel, it was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing.
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Setting
The story takes place in the fictional town of Clanton, in Ford County, Mississippi -- a portmanteau of two Jackson, MS suburbs -- Clinton and Canton.
Plot
The story revolves around a small southern Mississippi town where a young black girl is raped and beaten by two white men. The father, Carl Lee Hailey, distraught and seeking vengeance, guns down the two men involved in the courthouse. Local lawyer Jake Brigance works to defend Hailey in the midst of growing racial tensions that threaten to break out into a full-fledged race riot, with the Ku Klux Klan, National Guard and local citizens locked in a bloody battle on the streets of Clanton. Jake Brigance receive help from his old lawyer friend, Lucien and his new freeworking secretary Roark.
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