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1) The brethren
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They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong....
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"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
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When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
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Historia Stanów Zjednoczonych notuje tylko cztery przypadki zabójstwa sędziego federalnego w okresie pełnienia tej funkcji. Podwójne morderstwo, którego ofiarami padają sędzia Raymond Fawcett i jego osobista sekretarka, właśnie powiększyło tę statystykę. W domku letniskowym nad jeziorem, obok pustego sejfu, agenci FBI odnajdują dwa ciała z kulami w głowach. Śledztwo utyka w martwym punkcie. Malcolm Bannister, czarnoskóry prawnik...
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"Vuelta a casa" nos lleva de regreso a Ford County, escenario de muchas de las inolvidables historias de John Grisham. Esta vez Jake Brigance no está en el tribunal; quien acude a él es un viejo amigo, Mack Stafford, un exabogado de Clanton. Tres años antes, Mack se convirtió en una leyenda local cuando robó el dinero de sus clientes, se divorció de su mujer, se declaró en bancarrota y abandonó a su familia en mitad de la noche sin que nunca...
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