02160cam a2200325 4500 431863098 TxAuBib 20200813120000.0 940314s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 94011764 9780385424721 0385424728 TxAuBib Grisham, John. The chamber. Copy #2 / John Grisham. New York : Doubleday, 1994. vi, 486 p. ; 25 cm. In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances - except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and 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. "A dark and thoughtful tale pulsing wit moral uncertainties...Grisham is at his best." (People) "Compelling.... Powerful.... The Chamber will make readers think long and hard about the death penalty." (USA Today.) 20200813. Ku Klux Klan (1915) Fiction. Civil rights movements Fiction. Death row inmates Fiction. Bombings Fiction. Greenville (Miss) Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. Legal stories. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random041/94011764.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random043/94011764.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/94011764-b.html Contributor biographical information