The Chamber

John Grisham's fifth novel is one of his most serious. Sam Cayhall, an unrepentant former Klansman, has spent nearly a decade on Mississippi's death row for a 1967 bombing that killed two young boys, the sons of a Jewish civil rights lawyer. With only weeks left before his execution, a young Chicago lawyer, Adam Hall, takes on his case, and reveals that Sam is his grandfather. As the clock runs down, Adam races to save a man he barely knows while uncovering painful truths about his family's past and the crime itself. A gripping legal thriller and a searching look at the death penalty and the legacy of racism in the American South. Doubleday, 1994.

Condition: Hardcover with dust jacket. Used, in very good condition apart from some wrinkling, scuffing and small chips at the edges of the dust jacket.