Book – **** In John Grisham’s recent offering, Sebastian Rudd is a lawyer who takes on the worst clients, invests in cage fighters, is a near total loner, but still manages to capture the reader’s interest in watching him thread through the mazes of the legal system.
Not John Grisham’s strongest novel due to it’s heavy message against capital punishment, delivered in many ways and at length. Still, Grisham is an excellent writer and I’ve yet to read a book of his that didn’t pay back my time spent.
Book – *** The Chamber (1994) – Slow exploration of Sam Cayhall, a Klu Klux Clan murderer facing the gas chamber. His estranged grandson, Adam Hill, fights his impending death sentence for two murders he did not commit. Too much of a treatise against the death penalty, while leaving interesting…