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La faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal est le dépotoir de l'humanité. Tu le sais : t'en es le déchet cardinal. Tu viens de commencer ta première session, mais y a pas une minute à perdre : si tu veux un beau poste en finissant faudra un beau stage au Barreau et si tu veux un beau stage au Barreau faudra une belle moyenne au bacc et si tu veux une belle moyenne au bacc faudra casser des gueules parce qu'ici c'est free-for-all et on s'élève pas au-dessus de la mêlée en étant gentil.

Biloxi's best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his client's beautiful wife is murdered, and America's #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect. Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer—and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak—damaging his reputation and ruining his career.

#1 New York Times bestseller. John Grisham returns to Florida, where The Whistler’s Lacy Stoltz takes on a cold case that reveals a judge’s darkest secrets. “One of the best crime reads of the year . . . a world-class shocker, worth staying up all night to finish.”—The Wall Street Journal. In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed.

#1 New York Times bestseller. From “a legal literary legend” (USA Today) comes a gripping thriller of two childhood friends who find themselves on opposite sides of the law as adults, with all of John Grisham’s trademark twists and turns. For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings.

Jesse Hall is a 29 year-old lawyer who grew up in poverty and learned about injustice first hand. Upon graduation, he picked Caldwell & Shaw, a preeminent San Francisco silk-stocking firm, determined to learn about the use and abuse of power, then build a war chest, enter politics, and fight for the disadvantaged. The firm sends Jesse to Guatemala to vet the local lawyer defending the son of C&S's biggest client, Calvin (Cal) Covington. Young Kevin is accused of murdering a popular Guatemalan human rights advocate, Marisa Andrade.

Billy Strobe, a lawyer and an ex-con, is determined to prove two men innocent, his father and a fellow convict named Darryl Orton.

A prominent San Francisco law firm is about to go under, and senior partner Austin Barrington will stop at nothing to save it, but ambition, desire, and even murder threaten to destroy everything.

The US Air Force's top secret, state-of-the-art stealth bombers are dropping from the skies. The official verdict is pilot error, but a young pilot's widow and a maverick young lawyer don't think so. Their investigation uncovers government dirty dealing, billion-dollar fraud and murder.