Brief description:
October I946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was CIanton, Mississippi's favorite son-a West Point graduate, decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Peter's only statement about it to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family-was: "I have nothingto say." He was not afraid of death and was willinq totake his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anyhing he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey,
from "the Jim Crow' South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum
filIed with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense and he delivers on every page.
Pete Banning was CIanton, Mississippi's favorite son-a West Point graduate, decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Peter's only statement about it to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family-was: "I have nothingto say." He was not afraid of death and was willinq totake his motive to the grave.
In a major novel unlike anyhing he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey,
from "the Jim Crow' South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum
filIed with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense and he delivers on every page.
Publication
Doubleday
Original publication date
2018
Collection
Physical description
417 p.; 10 inches