Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham

'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett

Sometimes you have to fight dirty to get clean.

Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team.


Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial - even if he has to cheat to get one. He antagonises people from both sides of the law: his last office was firebombed, either by drug dealers or cops. He doesn't know or care which.

But things are about to get even more complicated for Sebastian. Arch Swanger is the prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of 21-year-old Jiliana Kemp, the daughter of the assistant chief of police. When Swanger asks Sebastian to represent him, he lets Sebastian in on a terrible secret . . . one that will threaten everything Sebastian holds dear.

Gritty, witty, and impossible to put down, Rogue Lawyer is the master of the legal thriller at his very best.

John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a
professional baseball player. After graduating from law school at Ole
Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade, specialising in criminal defense and personal injury
litigation. One day, Grisham overheard the harrowing
testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a
novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987.

His next novel, The Firm, spent 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and became the bestselling novel of 1991. Since then, he has written one novel a year, including The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker and The Runaway Jury.

Today, Grisham has written a collection of stories, a work of non-fiction, three sports novels, seven kids' books, and many legal thrillers. His work has been translated
into 45 languages. He lives near Charlottesville, Virginia.

John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers
Telegraph

Leaves one eager for more
Spectator

No one does it better than Grisham
Daily Telegraph

A master storyteller
Huffington Post

Sebastian Rudd is a kind of social justice warrior and Grisham uses him to take jabs at the legal system . . . all with a blunt, rude, gravelly poetic wise guy voice that makes Rudd come across as a kind of 21st-century Philip Marlowe.
Benjamin Percy, The New York Times Book Review

Terrific . . . The biggest mystery that ROGUE LAWYER poses is how Grisham, at this stage in his long writing career, can still devise all these distinctive characters, tricky legal predicaments and roguishly cheating ways to worm out of them. It's one mystery we Grisham fans just want to appreciate, rather than solve.
Washington Post

Highly readable, thanks to Grisham's fast-moving narrative skills
Independent

The energy is sustained to the end
Sunday Times

A riveting read . . . A very satisfying ending
Gloria Hunniford, Mail on Sunday