Immediately, the implications of a dead officer promises fireworks across the county, and after exhausting every other possibility of assigning the job of defending the teen the Honorable Omar “Ichabod” Noose, Jake’s curmudgeonly old friend and legal mentor, heavily insists that Jake defend the Gamble boy, temporarily, until a suitable replacement can be found. The off-duty cop was so blackout drunk he probably never felt a thing. The suspect, who already admitted to the killing, is 16-year-old Drew Gamble, son of Stu’s live-in girlfriend Josie, who Stu had just beaten so severely her jaw was dislocated, her face a mess as she now lay asleep in a coma.Ĭonvinced his mother was dead and he and his 14-year-old sister Keira in danger, Drew had taken Stu’s service pistol from its holder, held it to the side of Stu’s head, and pulled the trigger. When the police arrived at the sad little home of deputy sheriff Stu Kofer they weren’t prepared for what they found his brains splattered over his pillow. Set five years after Jake Brigance successfully defended Carl Lee Hailey in the events of A Time to Kill, we return to the dusty streets of 1990 Clanton, Mississippi – and much of Clanton’s residents – for another legal adventure that pushes the moral mettle of our heroic defense attorney to the breaking point in a rapidly changing South. A less preachy, entertaining Grisham novel is always preferable to the alternative.
It may sound like faint praise, but the latest in the continuing saga of Jake Brigance is more standard-issue Grisham legal thriller than one with loftier ambitions, and this is fine. It was something different from an author who’d become almost predictable by that point, and one of his very best efforts.Ī Time for Mercy, the third in Grisham’s Jake Brigance series, never quite rises to the level of its predecessor in scope or execution, the dueling cases facing Jake this time around never quite feel as vital or satisfying as they should. Grisham not only brought with him decades of experience crafting some of the most timely – and cinematic – lawyerly novels of his generation, but a better sense of pacing and the confidence of a storyteller at the top of his game. 2013’s Sycamore Row, John Grisham’s first sequel to A Time to Kill (and first-ever sequel at the time) was a superior effort to the lawyer-turned-author’s 1989 celebrated debut.
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