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John Grisham's five novels — , and — have been number one best-sellers, and have a combined total of 47 million copies in print. Now, in , Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since , and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed. Combining suspense, narrative momentum, and humor as only John Grisham can, this is another spellbinding read from the most popular author of our time.

Grisham's sixth spellbinding novel of legal intrigue and corporate greed displays all of the intricate plotting, fast-paced action, humor, and suspense that have made him the most popular author of our time. In his first courtroom thriller since A , John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America — and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen — and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys — and powerful industries — in America.

From John Grisham, America's number one best-selling author, comes the most electrifying novel of the year, a high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State.

We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the orderly and efficient flow of justice.

But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? It's rare, but it happens.

Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption.

But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states and throughout US history.

What's the source of the ill-gotten gains? It seems the judge was secretly involved with the construction of a large casino on Native American land. The Coast Mafia financed the casino and is now helping itself to a sizable skim of each month's cash. The judge is getting a cut and looking the other way. It's a sweet deal: Everyone is making money.

But now Greg wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. Greg files a complaint with the Board on Judicial Conduct, and the case is assigned to Lacy Stoltz, who immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous.

Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else.

Mercer Mann, a popular writer from Camino Island, is back on the beach, marrying her boyfriend, Thomas, in a seaside ceremony. Bruce Cable, infamous owner of Bay Books, performs the wedding. Afterward, Bruce tells Mercer that he has stumbled upon an incredible story. Mercer desperately needs an idea for her next novel, and Bruce now has one.

The true story is about Dark Isle, a sliver of a barrier island not far off the North Florida coast. It was settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, and their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave. That last descendant is Lovely Jackson, elderly now, who loves her birthplace and its remarkable history. But now Tidal Breeze, a huge, ruthless corporate developer, wants to build a resort and casino on the island, which Lovely knows, deep down, is rightfully hers.

Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns Dark Isle, taking on Tidal Breeze Corporation, its lawyers, lobbyists, and powerful Florida politicians. But Lovely knows something about the island that could seriously cloud the dollar signs in the developer’s eyes: the island is cursed. It has remained uninhabited for nearly a century for some very real and very troubling reasons. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present, and the fate of Dark Isle — and Camino Island, too — hangs in the balance.

“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom. He’s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again — until now. Now Mack is back, and he’s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned.

In “Strawberry Moon,” we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can’t save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request.

The “Sparring Partners” are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who Inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to clear herself?

By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told.

In 1970, one of Mississippi’s more colorful weekly newspapers, , went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.

The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison.

But in Mississippi in 1970, “life” didn’t necessarily mean “life,” and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.

In the 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 secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisiticated satellite surveillance system.

Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo place, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive — there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.

Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.

Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.

But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.

Woody Lambert is in trouble. He comes from a broken family, suffers bad grades at school and his older brother, Tony, is on probation for a drug offence. When Woody inadvertently gets caught up with Tony and one of his friends, Garth, cruising around Strattenburg in a beaten-up Mustang drinking beer, one thing leads to another and Garth holds up a convenience store with a fake gun.

Though he had no involvement in the crime other than being in Garth’s car, Woody is arrested as an accomplice. He’s going to need serious legal advice to avoid juvenile prison.

Enter Theodore Boone: after all, Theo has already decided that he will become the best courtroom lawyer in the state. It’s just that, at the age of thirteen, Theo is years from being a qualified lawyer — and Woody needs help right now...

Discover how ’s Sebastian Rudd meets his partner and bodyguard in this thrilling short story, by master of the legal thriller John Grisham.

Ten years out of law school, and running an office out of what used to be a seedy bar, Sebastian Rudd is beginning to make a name for himself — and learning that in order to get justice, you often have to cheat.

When he chooses to represent Thomas Cardell, he’s about to make even more enemies.

At 33 years old, and with no money and a son to care for, Thomas Cardell is forced to become a drugs mule. But on his first night in the game, he’s ruthlessly shot at by an undercover cop, and his only choice is to shoot back in self-defence. When the cop is killed it’s Cardell’s word against the other police officer on the scene, and proving Cardell innocent will be far from simple.

But who ever said getting justice was easy?

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America.

Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client — even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.

Im letzten Semester seines Jurastudiums erteilt Rudy Baylor einer Gruppe alter Leute kostenlose Rechtsberatung und gewinnt dabei seine ersten» Mandanten«: Dot und Buddy Black. Ihr Sohn Donny Ray ist an Leukämie erkrankt, aber die Versicherungsgesellschaft weigert sich hartnäckig, für die Therapie, die sein Leben retten konnte, aufzukommen. Rudy, zunächst skeptisch, begreift bald, daß die Blacks auf infame Weise von ihrer Versicherung über den Tisch gezogen werden und daß er es mit einem der größten Betrugsskandale in der Versicherungsbranche zu tun hat, die es je gab — und zugleich mit einem der spektakulärsten und lukrativsten Prozesse in der Geschichte der amerikanischen Rechtsprechung: Der Anwalt, der ihn gewinnt, kann zum» Regenmacher «werden: Er kann seiner Kanzlei das ganz große Geld einbringen. Doch da ist noch ein Problem: Rudy, der sein Studium mit Jobs finanziert hat, ist pleite und kann keine Anstellung finden. Er hat noch nicht einmal das Anwaltsexamen hinter sich, geschweige denn eine Lizenz. Und gleich bei seinem ersten Fall wird er es im Gerichtssaal mit einem der erfolgreichsten Verteidiger der Vereinigten Staaten zu tun bekommen.

«In unglaublich dramatischen, aber gelegentlich auch sehr witzigen Gerichtsszenen erfahren wir genau, wie eine Versicherung wirklich funktioniert und welcher betrügerischen Mittel die großen Konzerne sich immer wieder bedienen.«

Trumble, ein Gefängnis in Florida, gilt als Geheimtipp unter den Kriminellen, ähnelt es doch eher einem Feriencamp als einem Hochsicherheitstrakt. Vor allem harmlosere Fälle sitzen dort ihre Strafe ab, darunter Kleindealer, Steuersünder, Wallstreet-Gauner und auch drei ehemals angesehene Richter. Als» Bruderschaft «treten Letztere auf und machen die Gefängnisbibliothek kurzerhand zu ihrem neuen Arbeitsplatz. Dort übernehmen sie — selbstverständlich gegen Bezahlung — Rechtsangelegenheiten von Mitinsassen und sitzen regelmäßig zu Gericht über kleinere Verstöße innerhalb der Gefängnismauern.

Allerdings verbringen sie dort auch Stunden damit, sich über lukrativere Einkünfte den Kopf zu zerbrechen. Mit scheinbar harmlosen Anzeigen in einschlägigen Magazinen locken sie zahlungskräftige Kandidaten an, die sie kurz darauf skrupellos erpressen. Ihre Rechnung scheint aufzugehen, und die drei genialen Richter malen sich ihre Zukunft in den schillerndsten Farben aus. Bis sie eines Tages an den Falschen geraten, einen mächtigen Politiker mit äußerst gefährlichen Freunden, der nicht den leisesten Zweifel an seinem lupenreinen Image aufkommen lassen darf. Die Bruderschaft nimmt den Kampf auf und setzt alles auf eine Karte.

Travis Boyette es un asesino. En 1998, en una pequeña ciudad de Texas, raptó, violó y estranguló a una de las chicas más guapas y más populares del instituto. Enterró el cadáver en un lugar donde nadie lo encontraría nunca y luego esperó. Observó impasible mientras la policía detenía a Donté Drumm, la estrella del equipo de fútbol que nada había tenido que ver con el crimen.

Donté fue acusado, declarado culpable y condenado a muerte. Ahora han transcurrido nueve años y solo faltan cuatro días para la ejecución de Donté. En Kansas, a más de seiscientos kilómetros de la cárcel, Travis también se enfrenta a su destino: un tumor cerebral que le deja muy poco tiempo de vida. Decide hacer lo correcto por primera vez: va a confesar. Pero ¿será capaz un hombre culpable de convencer a los abogados, los jueces y los políticos de que están a punto de ejecutar a un hombre inocente?

Troy Phelan ist ein milliardenschwerer Exzentriker, der des Lebens müde ist. Doch nicht so müde, daß er sein Imperium kampflos seinen geldgierigen Erben überlassen würde. Bevor er sich aus dem 13. Stock stürzt, verfügt er, daß sein gesamtes Vermögen an seine bis dato völlig unbekannte, uneheliche Tochter Kachel geht. In der Phelan-Familie bricht ein Sturm der Entrüstung los, und es wird sofort alles in Bewegung gesetzt, um das Testament anzufechten. Unterdessen versucht der ehemalige Staranwalt Nate O'Riley, mit dessen Karriere es schon seit Jahren bergab geht, die legitime Erbin aufzutreiben. Doch wie Rachel finden, die irgendwo im unzugänglichen brasilianischen Regenwald als Missionarin arbeitet? Als O'Riley nach einer abenteuerlichen und lebensgefährlichen Reise schließlich zu ihr gelangt, scheint alles umsonst gewesen zu sein - Rachel interessiert sich nicht für das Erbe ihres Vaters, dafür um so mehr für die Lebensgeschichte von Nate. Doch die Zeit läuft. Wenn O'Riley Rachel nicht umzustimmen vermag, fällt das gesamte Vermögen in die Hände des unersättlichen Phelan-Clans.

A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball…

In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records.

Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his Dad. Then Warren threw a fastball that would change their lives forever…

In John Grisham’s new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it’s what happens off the field that makes CALICO JOE a classic.

Sfingował własną śmierć i zniknął z 90 milionami z konta swojej firmy prawniczej. Patrick Lanigan, błyskotliwy, znakomity adwokat, dokonał mistrzowskiego przekrętu, którego nie wybaczą mu jego wspólnicy. Po latach dopadną go. Będą torturowali, zanim postawią przed sądem: oni, żona i wymiar sprawiedliwości – wszyscy chcą głowy Patricka… za wszelką cenę. Ale Lanigan przewidział wszystko. Lub prawie wszystko…

Zabójstwa sędziów Sądu Najwyższego. FBI i CIA są bezradne. Śledztwo stoi w miejscu. Na trop sprawców wpada studentka prawa. Swoje podejrzenia przedstawia w specjalnym raporcie. I staje się celem płatnych morderców i służb specjalnych.