Normally the lawyers give their arguments and then the jury go and deliberate but not so in John Grisham's thriller "The Runaway Jury". In this book one mysterious girl, known only as Marlee, is controlling the whole jury from the outside. Her background is obscure and if they knew it they wouldn't trust her. Which way will she turn, for the plaintiff and send tobacco companies worldwide into a crisis, or for the defence and stop all litigation cases for a generation? Her accomplice Nicholas Easter, is introduced as a mystifying potential juror. "The problem with Easter, potential juror number...
hectic life of lawyers but unusually he places the focus in the jury. If you were a lawyer working a big case and someone like Marlee came to you she would be like an angel sent from heaven, I found her too good to be true. I doubt that you would be able to control the way a jury votes through one member of the panel and an outside person. You'd think that Grisham would run out of ideas after writing so many law thrillers but apparently not. It is an extreme but I think he's made it work.