Arrow Books The Summons Гришэм Джон

"Аппеляция" - юридический триллер Джона Гришэма • За деньги можно купить все, что угодно. Даже вердикт • В переполненном зале суда в Миссисипи химическая компания объявлена виновной в сбросе токсичных отходов в систему водоснабжения небольшого городка, что привело к наихудшему "скоплению раковых клеток" в истории • Их единственный выход - подать апелляцию в Верховный суд Миссисипи, девять судей которого либо утвердят вердикт, либо отменят его • Владелец компании хочет получить место в суде. Его политические агенты вербуют молодого, ничего не подозревающего кандидата. Они финансируют его, манипулируют им, продают его и формируют из него потенциального судью Верховного суда • Их судья Верховного суда • И если их схема не будет раскрыта, загрязнители совершат чистый побег

It's a deadly game of blackmail. And they're making him play • Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his entire life • One night that secret catches up with him in the form of a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him. Kyle realises that he no longer owns his own future - that he must do as his blackmailers tell him, or the video will be made public, with all the unpleasant consequences • What price do they demand for Kyle's secret? It is for Kyle to take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world. Kyle won't be working for this company, but against it - passing on the secrets of it's biggest trial to date, a dispute worth billions of dollars to the victor

Troy Phelen is one of the richest men in the United States, and he's looking for a way to die • He might just have found it • Nate O'Riley is a high-powered Washington litigator who's lived hard and fast for too long. Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab, he knows returning to the real world is going to be murder • Meanwhile Troy's estranged daughter walked away from the modern world and devoted her life to God, moving to the isolated deep jungles of Brazil • When Troy dies and leaves a shocking will behind him, three lives collide with vast repercussions • And no one will ever be the same after the startling secrets of The Testament

There are some cases you have to take • Adam Hill is a rookie lawyer at a top Chicago firm. The world is at his feet • So why does he volunteer to represent a KKK terrorist under threat of execution? • And why is the defendant happy to put his life in a novice's hands? • The answer lies twenty years in the past, but there are darker, more shocking secrets to be uncovered

An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him • Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body where it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a black local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row • Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Over 400 miles away in Kansas, Travis also faecs death, suffering from an inoperable brain tumour. At long last, he decides to do what's right. After years of silence, he is ready to confess • But the law doesn't want to hear it. As far as they're concerned, they've got their man

Руди Бэйлор — начинающий адвокат, который собирается взяться за судьбоносное дело, борясь за справедливость для молодого человека, чью смерть можно было легко предотвратить • Это дело способно изменить для Руди все — погасить его долги и спасти его юридическую карьеру • Но он никогда раньше не выступал в суде. И ему предстоит противостоять адвокатской элите • Сможет ли Руди победить, несмотря ни на что? Или правда будет похоронена навсегда? • язык издания: Английский • Rudy Baylor is a rookie lawyer who is about to take on a career-defining case, fighting for justice for a young man whose death could have easily been prevented • This case has the power to change everything for Rudy - eliminate his debts and save his legal practice • But he's never argued a case in court before

Автор легендарных юридических триллеров Джон Гришэм представляет уникальную коллекцию историй, связанных с жизнью и преступлениями округа Форд • От сильно пьющего адвоката по бракоразводным процессам, ищущего компромат, до манипулирующего заключенного камеры смертников, который в последний раз признает свою вину, в округе Форд представлен яркий состав юристов, мошенников, жуликов и осужденных. Из их рассказов вырисовывается богатая картина жизней, прожитых и потерянных в Миссисипи • Полностью захватывающий, часто трогательный и всегда занимательный, сборник "Округ Форд" наполнен теми же захватывающими историями и душераздирающей драмой, что и предыдущие бестселлеры Гришема • Книга на английском языке • Ford County. The heart of the American deep South

The wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family • From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets • When he grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. Jethro takes Charity in to help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop • Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well treated, but Jethro instills in her the love of books that began when her grandmother taught her to read. And she starts to hope for a better future for herself • But Jethro dies unexpectedly, and Charity is faced with eviction when the rent is raised by the unscrupulous landlord

'The dream team delivers big time ... Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.' - Lee Child • The President is Missing. The world is in shock • But the reason he's missing is much worse than anyone can imagine • With details only a President could know, and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver • 'A bullet train of a thriller. The Day of the Jackal for the twenty-first century.' - A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window • 'Yes, The President is Missing is fiction - it's a thriller - but James Patterson and I have come up with three of the most frightening days in the history of the presidency. And it could really happen... These days, the seemingly impossible can happen

The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the presents are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding • Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married - and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day - she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays • But the wedding isn't the only surprise - there is one more unexpected gift, and it could change all their lives for ever • With deeply affecting characters and the emotional twists of a James Patterson thriller, The Christmas Wedding is a fresh look at family and the magic of the festive season

The Forgotten Legion - fighting for honour, freedom and revenge • Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold - Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome. Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome, but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion. Brennus is a Gaul, his entire family killed by the Romans, and he rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day • The lives of these characters are bound and interwoven in an odyssey which begins in a Rome riven by political corruption and violence, but ends far away, at the very border of the known world, where the tattered remnants of a once-huge Roman army - the Forgotten Legion - will fight against overwhelming odds, and the three men will meet their destiny

The dramatic climax to Ben Kane's Forgotten Legion Trilogy • Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians • Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus's twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy • Soon after, Romulus fights at Zela, the vicious battle where Caesar famously said, 'Veni, vidi, vici'. Tarquinius, separated from Romulus in the chaos of war, hides in Alexandria, searching for guidance. But mortal danger awaits them both • From the battlefields of Asia Minor and North Africa, to the lawless streets of Rome and the gladiator arena, they face death daily, until on the Ides of March, the twins are reunited and must decide either to back or to betray Caesar on his day of destiny