6/20/2023 0 Comments A time for mercy by john grisham![]() ![]() At thirty-four, he was graying and balding and tried to cover it up with a bad comb-over, which after a night of bar-hopping left long strands of hair hanging below his ears. His pale Irish skin turned red, his cheeks were crimson, and his eyes glowed with a whiskey-lit fire that she had seen too many times. ![]() Here’s an excerpt from that old man writer’s new novel: At the time, I didn’t care about cliches and one-dimensional characters, and even if I did, John Grisham was a new writer who had succeeded because of grit (if you believed those 1990s stories about Grisham), so his flaws could be overlooked. I say “might be” because I at least finished A Time to Kill when I read it in the 1990s. Whether or not you think A Time to Kill was any good, A Time for Mercy might be even worse. To Kill A Mockingbird) that A Time to Kill was successful only because it was released right after The Firm hit it big. I’ve always thought (and you can read more at A Time To Kill vs. ![]() Who the heck is Jake Brigance? Oh yeah, Jake Brigance was the lawyer in Grisham’s early bestseller A Time to Kill. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham is being branded as the third Jake Brigance book. ![]()
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