![]() ![]() ![]() After all who’d want a dead-cop case in uniform-worshipping rural Clanton. Jake Brigance, a small-time attorney, is about to be handed his second capital murder case and his best and only friend has just told him to leave town before that happens. Kofer’s comrades-in-law have been keeping them quiet from him and now those incident reports have gone missing. ![]() ![]() His biggest problem is the 911 calls Kofer’s girlfriend Josie Gamble made to report his drunken rampages. The “state boys” have been called in to investigate and Ozzy knows trouble is coming. Ozzy Walls has been the sheriff of Ford County for over seven years, the only African-American one in all of Mississippi, elected by a landslide, and Kofer is the first man he’s ever lost. On-duty deputy Stuart Kofer had a heart of gold, an army vet who had served his country, volunteered in schools and civic clubs, and walked through “the colored section on foot, without a gun and with candy for the kids.” Off-duty Stuart had quite the reputation for drinking too much, starting brawls in bars, gambling, and beating his girlfriend and her kids. A deputy sheriff is shot and killed by the teenage son of his girlfriend. The action is set in 1990, in the armpit of a town that is Clanton. In A Time For Mercy, he brings back Jake Brigance, the legal eagle star of A Time To Kill and Sycamore Row. John Grisham is an institution in the field of legal fiction. ![]()
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