As a result, he suffers the ultimate punishment in this capital murder case, leaving behind his wife and two teenage sons. He does not deny his crime or authorize a judicial defense and, what is more puzzling, offers no explanation for his strange act. Many had assumed that he was dead during his several year absence, so he returns as a hero.Ī West Pointer and upstanding citizen of the cotton farming community, Pete goes to the local church one day and gives a local vicar three bullets. The first part of the story is set on the Mississippi River in 1946 and focuses on the novel’s main character, cotton farmer Peter Banning, fresh from his days as a prisoner of war and guerrilla fighter against the Japanese invaders in the Philippines. What bothers me is the intense focus on violence and shocking human humiliation, the lack of suspense, and the fact that the three story sections don’t mesh well. And indeed, each of the three story capsules is well written. In addition to being compelling stories (or “page turners” as I call them), he has recently used them to educate his readers on various facets of the legal system, from mass damages attorneys to public interest attorneys to supervising judge attorneys. My reaction is not to the small amount of legal elements in the story, as Grisham has become an excellent novelist in the last few decades.
I can’t understand why Grisham published this book. I have read every John Grisham adult novel since A Time to Kill and have reviewed many on Amazon. In a great novel the likes of which he has never 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 full of secrets to the Clanton courtroom, where Pete’s defense attorney is desperate to save him. Pete’s only statement on the matter, to the sheriff, his attorneys, the judge, the jury and his family, was, “I have nothing to say.” Then, one crisp October morning, he got up early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete Banning was the favorite son of Clanton, Mississippi: a distinguished World War II hero, patriarch of a prominent family, farmer, father, neighbor, and staunch member of the Methodist Church.
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