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John Grisham: The Runaway Jury

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Pynex, a tobacco company, could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in a big court case. The jury is being watched. One of the jurors is working with a mysterious woman outside the court. Both sides will do anything to win.

John Grisham: The Last Juror

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «Grisham's №1 «New York Times» bestseller returns readers to Ford County, Mississippi, the locale for «A Time to Kill». A young journalist becomes caught up in the sensational trial of a savage killer whose vengeful vow has a devastating effect on the small town.»

John Grisham: The Partner (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Patrick Lanigan, a lawyer, dies in a car crash. Later, the partners in his law firm discover that Patrick is not really dead. He is living in Brazil, and he has 90 million dollars of his partners' money...

John Grisham: A Time to Kill (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him and the electric chair. Is there a legal defense for Carl Lee’s actions?

John Grisham: The Chamber

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi's death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help?

John Grisham: The Testament

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Nate O’Riley is a powerful Washington lawyer. Returning to work after a long stay in hospital is difficult for Nate. Then he is sent on a journey that takes him from the tense courtrooms of Washington to the dangerous swamps of Brazil. It is a journey that will change his life forever…

John Grisham: The Summons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton,…

John Grisham: Penguin Active Reading 4: The Street Laywer (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 76) Аннотация: Michael is a successful lawyer with Drake and Sweeney. Then a homeless man attacks him. As Michael tries to discover who the man was, he uncovers a dangerous secret about Drake and Sweeney.

John Grisham: The Street Lawyer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers, no time to walk around them on the sidewalk, and no time for a conscience. But a violent…

John Grisham: The Partner

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. 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 three and a half million dollars. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not…

John Grisham: The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron…

John Grisham: The Innocent Man

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he…

John Grisham: The Brethren

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, an innocent on the outside, a man with dangerous friends.

John Grisham: A Time to Kill

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: «When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's…

John Grisham: The Broker

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It seems that Backman, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.

John Grisham: The Broker

Скачать книгу (размер 2 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 422) Аннотация: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained…

John Grisham: The Associate

Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: Kyle McAvoy grew up in his fathers small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesnt wanteven…

John Grisham: The King of Torts

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The latest bestselling novel by the prolific John Grisham is now available in mass market paperback. This searing thriller is the story of a public defender in Washington, D.C., who digs into the background of his client — charged with a random street killing — and stumbles into a conspiracy too horrible to believe.

John Grisham: Bleachers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Neely was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team but his playing days ended with an injury. For 15 years he's been trying to forget his past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. That is until the man who moulded him, Coach Eddie Rake is dying and Neely returns to Messina.

John Grisham: Bleachers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An unforgettable novel about fleeting youth, legends and heroes. High school All-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. As Coach Rake's 'boys' sit in…