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When the life of a 10-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken men, the town reacts in horror ... until her father takes justice into his own hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of this small town in Mississippi, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life ... and then his own.
2) Sycamore row
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Jake Brigance novels volume 2
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Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake Brigance into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would...
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Jake Brigance novels volume 3
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Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake?s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security,...