Who wants jury duty?. Review on Runaway Jury, The - John Grisham

John Grisham takes another controversial issue and turns it into a deeply involving thriller. Runaway Jury is a tightly wound drama that keeps your mind running as you turn each powerful page.

The scenario is a large, high-stakes law suit against a powerful tobacco company by a widow whose husband died from lung cancer as a result of using cigarettes. This time, Grisham focuses not on the plaintiffs, not on the defendants, not on the lawyers or the judges or the witnesses, but on the jury. He takes you through a jury selection and you watch with fascination as jurors are picked and questioned. You stand in awe at the finished product and earn a wholesome respect for those twelve people forced to listen to battering lawyers and long winded witnesses.

But there are some behind the scenes players even the judge doesn't know about. They try to influence the jurors by various, devious ways to get the verdict they want, even purchase it. It's a captivating inside look at corruption, bribery and scandals all hidden far away from justice, who is so frighteningly blind.

Enjoyable to all who enjoy legal thrillers, this one doesn't involve the mob(For once)and although there's no stakes as high as life and death, it is a provocative drama that will stimulate your mind, and maybe even influence it. It gives a sorrowful, honest look at tobacco and it's influences and effects. Sure to jar the most settled mind, and keep it jarred for the entire book.