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The Runaway Jury : A Novel

John Grisham
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
9780385472944
0-385-47294-3

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongsto him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobaccotrial with hundreds of millions of dollars atstake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously offcourse..

The jury is behaving strangely, and atleast one juroris convinced he's being watched. Soonthey have to be sequestered. Then a tip from ananonymousyoung woman suggests she is able to predictthe jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jurysomehow being manipulated, or even controlled? Ifso, by whom? And, more important,why?