From master storyteller John Grisham comes an electrifying thriller starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz. A jury fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member and a mysterious outsider who both offer to “deliver” the verdict to the highest bidder. Soon, lives and millions of dollars are at stake in this pulse-pounder filled with twists and turns.
Set in New Orleans, this is the story of a mysterious man, Nick Easter. Nick gets himself not only on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer, but as the foreman, in an attempt to influence the other jury members to vote a certain way (in partnership with his girlfriend, Marlee, who tries to swindle the attorneys outside the jury). The case involves the widow of a man killed in an office shooting suing the gun manufacturer of the weapon that was used, under the claim that they knew the store that sold it was not obeying the laws about firearm sales,
