Publisher: Doubleday New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland

Edition:First Edition

Year: 2002

Description: VF, 341 pp.; Doubleday First Edition February 2002 (stated); The main character, Ray Atlee, is a recent divorcee and teaches law at the University of Virginia. His father Judge Atlee is retired after forty years serving on the bench in Clanton, Mississippi. He is residing in the family mansion from which he serves a Summons to Ray and his drug addicted younger brother Forrest to meet him in his study on a specific date and time. The judge dies before their arrival at the old family home. No court room drama in this thriller which focuses primarily on Ray and the two million dollars he discovers in his father's estate. VF dj

Author: John Grisham