LETS DISCUSS ABOUT "A Time to Kill" Novel Written By John Grisham

A Time to Kill is a 1989 legal suspense thriller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_thriller) by John Grisham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grisham). Grisham's first novel, it was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing. A Time to Kill grew after his other books became best sellers the book was republished by Doubleday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)) in hardcover and, later, by Dell Publishing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Publishing) in paperback, and itself became a bestseller.The story takes place in the town of Clanton, Mississippi, which is also featured in other John Grisham novels.

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In 1984 at the De Soto County courthouse in Hernando (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando,_Mississippi), Grisham witnessed the harrowing testimony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony) of a 10-year-old rape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape) victim. [1 ] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill#cite_note-Biography-0) According to Grisham's official website, Grisham used his spare time to begin his first novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel), which "explored what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants." [1 ] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill#cite_note-Biography-0) He spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Grisham has also cited Harper Lee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee)'s To Kill a Mockingbird (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird) as an influence. This book is set in 1986.

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In Clanton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously raped and beaten by two white racists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racist)—James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Shortly thereafter, Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, while Pete and Billy Ray are heard bragging in a roadside bar about what they did to Tonya.

Tonya's distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, recalls a similar case from the year before, in which four white men raped (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape) a black girl in a nearby town and were acquitted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquittal). Carl Lee is determined not to allow that to happen in this case. Consequently, while Deputy DeWayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs inside the courthouse, Carl Lee emerges from a nearby closet with an assault rifle and kills Pete and Billy Ray and accidentally wounds Looney, resulting in the amputation of his lower leg. (During the trial Looney forgives Hailey, saying he has a daughter himself, and that if someone raped her, he would gladly do the same as Carl Lee.)

To know what happens to Carl lee then please read the book and lets all discuss about it in the meet up..

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