Sparring Partners Audiobook

John Grisham Sparring Partners Audiobook

«Homecoming» returns us to Ford County, the imaginary setting for several of John Grisham’s memorable works. Jake Brigance has returned, although he is not in the courtroom. He’s been asked to assist an old buddy, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton who became a local legend three years ago when he stole money from his customers, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and abandoned his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again—until now. Mack has returned, and he’s counting on his old allies Jake and Harry Rex to assist him. His return home does not go as planned.

Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate approximately three hours from execution, is introduced in «Strawberry Moon.» His lawyers are unable to save him, the courts close the door, and the governor denies a last-minute clemency request. Cody has one last request as time runs out.

The Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, are two brilliant young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous practice when its founder, their father, was sentenced to prison. Kirk and Rusty despise each other and only speak to each other when absolutely required. As the firm crumbles, the ensuing disaster falls on Diantha Bradshaw, the one person the partners trust. Will she be able to save the Malloys, or will she take a stance for the first time in her career in order to save herself?

These are three of John Grisham’s best stories, by turns suspenseful, amusing, forceful, and moving.

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John Grisham

John Grisham (born February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States), is an American author, attorney, and politician whose legal thrillers frequently topped best-seller lists and were adapted for film. Grisham went on to become one of the best-selling authors of modern fiction.

Grisham grew up in the Mississippi town of Southaven. He practiced law and served as a Democrat in the Mississippi state legislature from 1984 to 1989 after being admitted to the Mississippi bar in 1981. Grisham then took three years to write his first novel, A Time to Kill (1989; film 1996), which deals with the legal, social, and moral ramifications of a Mississippi Black man being tried for the murder of two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. Despite favorable reviews for its well-crafted dialogue and sense of place, the novel did not sell well.

With his next novel, The Firm(1991; film1993, TV series2012), Grisham vowed to «take a naked stab at commercial fiction.» The novel is about a law school graduate who is seduced into joining a Memphis law firm that turns out to be a front for the Mafia. The sale of the film rights sparked a bidding war for the publishing rights, and within weeks of the book’s release, it was on The New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for nearly a year, allowing Grisham to give up his law practice and relocate to a farm in Oxford, Mississippi, with his family. Meanwhile, A Time to Kill, which was reissued in paperback, sold over three million copies.

In only three months, Grisham completed his third novel, The Pelican Brief (1992; film 1993), about a female law student investigating the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. By March 1993, there were 5.5 million copies in print. The novel’s film rights were sold for more than $1 million. Another novel, The Client (1993; film 1994), eschewed suspense in favor of humour and slapstick energy. Critics almost unanimously agreed that the plot, which revolved around an 11-year-old boy who uncovers a mob-related murder plot, seemed tailor-made for the screen. Indeed, the novel’s film rights sold for $2.5 million, while the novel itself sold 2.6 million copies in 15 weeks. Grisham’s success continued with titles such as The Chamber (1994; film 1996), The Rainmaker (1995; film 1997), The Runaway Jury (1996; film 2003), and The Testament (1996). (1999).

Grisham took a break from his formulaic legal thrillers in 2001 with A Painted House (television film 2003), a story about a farm boy from rural Arkansas who discovers a troubling secret in his small town. Other nonlegal novels that followed were Skipping Christmas(2001; filmed as Christmas with the Kranks in2004), Bleachers(2003), Playing for Pizza(2007), Calico Joe(2012), and Sooley (2013). (2021). Camino Island (2017) and Camino Winds (2020) are crime thrillers about a female writer.

Grisham, on the other hand, continued to write legal fiction, with The Summons (2002), The Last Juror (2004), The Appeal (2008), The Litigators (2011), The Racketeer (2012), and Gray Mountain (2014) among his later works. Grisham returned to the racial politics that drove the events of A Time to Kill in Sycamore Row(2013), focusing on the lawyer from that book, Jake Brigance. The Whistler (2016) is about judicial misconduct, while Rogue Lawyer (2015) follows the exploits of a criminal defense attorney who enjoys taking on seemingly hopeless cases. The Rooster Bar (2017) follows three indebted law students who discover that their school and student-loan bank are both owned by a questionable Wall Street investor. Later legal thrillers by Grisham included The Reckoning(2018), about a decorated World War II soldier who murders a pastor after returning to Mississippi, and The Guardians(2019), about a lawyer attempting to exonerate a murderer. Grisham continued the story of Jake Brigance, who defends a teen accused of murder in A Time for Mercy (2020).

His first nonfiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (2006), delves into a 1982 murder case that resulted in the wrongfully sentencing of two Oklahoma men to death row. Grisham released the short-story collection Ford County in 2009. The following year saw the release of Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, the first in a series of young-adult novels. The sequels were Theodore Boone: The Accused (2011), Theodore Boone: The Activist (2013), Theodore Boone: The Fugitive (2015), Theodore Boone: The Scandal (2016), and Theodore Boone: The Accomplice (2017). (2019).