The Runaway Jury

Description

The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. It was Grisham’s seventh novel, originally published in 1996.

This is an extraordinary saga about legal action against a cigarette company. But actually it’s the entire industry that is on trial and determined not to lose.

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course.

The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he’s being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors’ increasingly odd behavior.