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In biloxi, mississippi, a landmark trial against a tobacco company begins. There are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake and soon it swerves mysteriously off course. In new orleans, a failed day trader at a stock brokerage firm shows up at the office and opens fire on his. The case involves a widow who is suing a gun manufacturer because her husband was killed in an office massacre involving an easilyobtained weapon. It joined his other work including the pelican brief, the runaway jury, and the firm, which was on the new york times bestseller list for 47 weeks and became the bestselling novel of that year. The runaway jury douglas county libraries overdrive. When the jurors were selected to be in a landmark tobacco trial in biloxi, mississippi no one expected the jury to have some controlling and manipulation their verdict.
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What makes the runaway jury his most rewarding novel to date is that it is fully enlisted in an issue of substance, in which arguments of genuine pith are hammered out and resolved in a manner that is both intellectually and emotionally satisfying. In biloxi, mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. Now it seems that the plotline is not pure hollywood fantasy. Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobaccocompany case in biloxi, and the jurys packed with people who have dirty little secrets. Pdf playing for pizza book by john grisham free download.
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