in Grisham’s biggest win to date with an award of $683,500 to his client (John). Even when Grisham is not writing, he is extremely busy. He divides his time between his family, charity work and refereeing on one of the six ball fields he built for the twenty-six Little League teams in his area.

Not only does Marlee help Easter work on the jurors, she works on the outside forces as well. She makes contact with Fitch several times over the course of the trial, offering him a guaranteed verdict. He resists, but after she predicts a series of trial events, he becomes interested in her proposal. Finally he agrees to her demands after she and Easter successfully have the two strong pro-tobacco jurors disqualified. He agrees to pay her ten million dollars and follows her instructions to wire the money to a foreign account. Still, he does not trust her and sets about to determine her motives. Not until the jury has gone to deliberations does he learn that Marlee is actually,the daughter parents who both died from lung cancer as the result of smoking cigarettes. At that point, he realizes that the verdict will not be in the favor of the tobacco companies. But it is too late. Marlee has, by that time, transferred the money to another bank account and disappeared. In the end, Easter is able to get the verdict he and Marlee desire: an award for the plaintiff, Celeste Wood. Obviously, Fitch feels that he has been double-crossed, but there is little he can do about it since the deal between himself and Marlee was illegal.

Money talks. At least it does in this story, The Runaway Jury. Money bought the vote of several jurors, it bought the best attorneys in the country, and it almost bought the verdict. The readers get the feeling, though, that there are no real winners in the trial. Celeste Wood has delayed happiness with a new husband in her greed to get wealthy, the tobacco companies have lost money, Marlee, although richer, still does not have her parents, and the American public still has tobacco available to its youth.

The Runaway Jury is the story of a tobacco trial set in Biloxi, Mississippi, and is loosely based

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