The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, ... Zobraziť viac
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son—a 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 ... Zobraziť viac
When justice is for sale, every jury has a price.In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial against a tobacco company begins.There are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake and soon it swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is ... Zobraziť viac
Imagine a year without Christmas.No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. ... Zobraziť viac
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best [law firms] in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, ... Zobraziť viac
