The Chamber: A Novel [Paperback]

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In Chicago’s top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances—except for one: a determined lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.

While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather, and while the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets—including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall’s life . . . or cost Adam his.

“Totally hypnotic . . . scenes unfold and unfold and you can’t stop reading.”—The Washington Post

“A dark and thoughtful tale pulsing with moral uncertainties . . . Grisham is at his best.”—People

“The Chamberdoes grab hold and it doesn’t let go.”—The Boston Globe
 
“Compelling . . . powerful.”—USA Today

John Grishamis the author of twenty-three novels, including, most recently,The Litigators;one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.

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THE DECISION to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease. Only three people were involved in the process. The first was the man with the money. The second was a local operative who knew the territory. And the third was a young patriot and zealot with a talent for explosives and an astonishing knack for disappearing without a trail. Aftelcr