John Grisham
John Grisham
Author Overview By the Side Quest Book Club Podcast
“I’m alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I’m right.” ~ John Grisham, The Rainmaker
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Author Highlights
Here is what you can expect from a John Grisham story…
Fast-paced legal thrillers often set in courts, law firms, or small towns
Intricate plots with suspense and twists that keep raders guessing
Moral and ethical dilemmas explored through lawyers, judges, and ordinary people
Author Bio
John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts, and The Exchange: After the Firm.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
This bio is taken from John Grisham’s website.
Slava’s Thoughts
I got into John Grisham through The Firm and then A Time to Kill, and that set the hook. What I like about Grisham is that his stories are built around systems and power structures. He drops regular people into them and lets the pressure do the work.
His books aren’t necessarily about clever twists. They’re about watching someone get slowly trapped by institutions that don’t care about them. The law isn’t treated as something noble by default. It’s a machine.
Grisham is good at pacing without turning everything into an action movie. Most of the tension comes from how boxed in the characters are and from seeing how much they’re willing to risk to get out or do the right thing.
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