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Patrick Berthon

    The Pelican Brief
    The King of Torts
    A Painted House
    The Innocent Man
    The Summons
    The Client
    • The Client

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.4(21834)Add rating

      #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother are sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer leaves 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.

      The Client
    • The Summons

      • 373 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.0(85632)Add rating

      Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray.

      The Summons
    • The Innocent Man

      • 501 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.9(67309)Add rating

      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. Whe

      The Innocent Man
    • It is the 1950s in Arkansas, the cotton season and to the Chandler family it means hard work, temporary workers and a host of complications. A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a seven year old farm boy, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.

      A Painted House
    • A public defender takes an unwanted murder case and stumbles across a horrible pharmaceutical conspiracy.

      The King of Torts
    • The Pelican Brief

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.6(2453)Add rating

      Contemporary / British English In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has uncovered a deadly secret but will anyone believe her? Can she stay alive long enough to persuade them she is right?

      The Pelican Brief
    • Bleachers

      • 229 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.5(1201)Add rating

      Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.

      Bleachers
    • The Brethren

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.5(1284)Add rating

      Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in t

      The Brethren