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Theodore Boone, young lawyer, has had a lot to deal with in his 13 years; everything from kidnapping to murder. But he's come through it all and, with the law on his side, justice has always prevailed. But sometimes the law doesn't seem so just. His friend Hardie Quinn is about to have his family home bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Hardie is not the only one affected: other homes, businesses and schools lie in the path of the road. Theo has to tell his friend the bad news: for once, the law isn't on his side, and there's very little anyone can do to end the destruction.

Признание, выбитое на допросе ловкими следователями, - и за Донти Драммом захлопнулась дверь тюремной камеры… А дальше - показания "свидетелей", которые отлично вписались в версию обвинения, и приговор, состряпанный прокурором и судьей... И вдруг всплывают обстоятельства, способные "опрокинуть" приговор. Неужели казнь удастся отменить?.. Но… Документы задерживаются. Двери кабинетов запираются. Чиновники, от которых зависит судьба осужденного, заняты своими личными делами. Стрелки же неумолимо отмеряют уже не часы, а последние минуты жизни Донти Драмма…

A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a young daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. And the chase was on

"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 three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. ©2000, 2001 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2001 Random House, Inc. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Прокуратура и ФБР, наемные убийцы мафии и “орлы” полиции - весь мир, похоже, охотится за одним-единственным человеком... одиннадцатилетним "трудным подростком” Марком Свеем. Мальчик случайно стал свидетелем самоубийства скандально знаменитого адвоката одной из самых могущественных преступных "семей" США, и перед смертью несчастный рассказал ребенку слишком многое. Если Марк не заговорит - попадет за решетку, если заговорит - погибнет. За совершенно, казалось бы, безнадежное дело его защиты берется адвокат-неудачница Реджи Лав...