The Chamber
(John Grisham)
?The Chamber? by John Grisham is one man?s desperate struggle to save a death-row inmate. Adam Cayhall, on the brink of a brilliant legal career is ready to jeopardize everything in order to save the grandfather he barely knows; after all he has chosen the legal profession just to save him. However, the man condemned, Sam Cayhall, is an incorrigible racist & in the name of the Klan has committed some heinous crimes in the past. Just when he decides to turn a new leaf the past catches up with him.In 1967 the office of a radical Jewish lawyer, Marvin Kramer is bombed. However, this is a covert operation gone horribly wrong. Josh & John, his five-year-old twins die a horrible death. Two decades & many trials later Sam Cayhall walks the plank. His whole family is devastated. His wife died a few weeks before he is convicted, his son commits suicide within a month the sentence & his only daughter is now a hopeless alcoholic. There are too many skeletons in the family closet & it is up to Adam to pick up the loose ends.Now the young lawyer has only a month to save Sam. It seems an insurmountable task. Lot of people are vying for his blood. The governor, & the attorney general-Steve Roxburgh- are considering their own political mileage; the general public wants an eye for an eye; & then there is another shadowy character, Rollie Wedge-a blast from the past- who has his own reasons to see Sam dead. There is too much against the condemned man, but still hope lives. John Grisham has given us a number of riveting courtroom drama & this one follows the tradition where the maverick Adam Hall leaves no stone unturned to prevent the capital punishment once & for all from the soil of U S of A.
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