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The Reckoning: A Novel

✍ Scribed by John Grisham


Book ID
115223172
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
328 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385544153

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✦ Synopsis


John Grisham's The Reckoning is the master storyteller's most powerful, surprising, and accomplished novel yet

"John Grisham is not only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition. And these remarkable skills converge in The Reckoning --an original, gripping, penetrating novel that may be his greatest work yet."
-- David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon

_October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
_
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son--a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only...


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