Legal Political Fiction

Disgusted with presidential elections that revolve around personal insults and partisanship, a group of hobbyists propose a candidate whose identity will be hidden. Their goal is to put the focus on solving problems, not on gender, race, hair, or hand size. Can this unusual group of political amateurs get an unseen person onto the ballot and elected as President of the United States?

After serving two tumultuous years with the CIA, Tony Gannon quit after the military coup that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. Now a lawyer in 1981 Miami, a city impacted by the Mariel Boatlift from Cuba, Gannon is assigned to represent a judge accused of murdering a prominent Cuban exile. Since the judge refuses to cooperate in his own defense, Gannon must try, with the assistance of two people from his CIA days, to uncover the judge's motive to present a compelling defense. Will the judge end up on Death Row?

Mike Redstone is elated when his small accounting firm lands a contract with a trendy Los Angeles tech company. As he goes to work for his new client, the twin suicide and drug epidemics sweeping Los Angeles are little more than regrettable distractions. But Redstone’s enthusiasm turns to confusion, and then fear, as he reluctantly realizes that his new client is at the center of a plot to subjugate his city, trapping its population in a web of drug-suffused thought control.

Juegos de poder nos revela una trastienda en los medios de comunicación que, de existir, pone los pelos de punta. Al juicio del oyente queda cuánto hay en estos relatos de realidad y cuánto de ficción...

Wenn aus der Wahrheit Böses wächst - der neue große Roman von John Grisham 1946 in Clanton, Mississippi: Pete Banning ist einer der angesehensten Bürger der Stadt. Durch den Anbau von Baumwolle hat er es zu Reichtum gebracht. Er ist ein aktives Mitglied der Kirche, ein loyaler Freund, ein guter Vater, ein verlässlicher Nachbar. Doch eines Morgens steht Banning in aller Früh auf, fährt zur Kirche und erschießt den Pfarrer. Ganz Clanton ist erschüttert. Es gibt nur eine einzige Frage: Warum? Banning aber schweigt. Und auch als ihm die Todesstrafe droht, redet er nicht.

Six months ago, Mia Rhodes was a Seattle office manager, toiling away from nine to five and spending her weekends managing her online political competition, Ameritocracy. Now, that competition is spreading across the American political landscape, making Mia a celebrity and giving Ameritocracy a real shot at upending the two-party system in the 2020 election. But as the final voting draws near, Mia is betrayed by one of the people she trusts most, throwing Ameritocracy into disarray, and possibly ending her dream of changing American politics forever.

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history.

Din klient är oskyldig. Din fru är skyldig. Vem skulle du kämpa för? När David Child, en viktig klient till en korrumperad advokatbyrå i New York, grips för mord vänder sig FBI till Eddie Flynn, en advokat med en bakgrund som fifflare, och ber honom övertala Child att vittna mot advokatbyrån. Eddie är inte den som låter sig tvingas till något, men när FBI avslöjar att de har komprometterande uppgifter om hans fru inser han att han inte har något val.

Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari—a woman he loved years ago—and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help. Marissa's husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being torn apart by the world's craving for its vast supply of oil.

President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her.

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case - the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder. Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari - a woman he loved years ago - and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help.

Hasan Makari and his son, Najib, both Lebanese nationals, have dreamed of the day they would experience the shining freedom of America. But when they arrive in the US, they are arrested, accused of terrorism, and incarcerated at the Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp in Cuba, all on false charges. Suddenly, they face the nightmare of death by execution. Their only hope is Navy JAG Officer Matt Davis, who has been assigned to the case of his life - to defend the Makaris in court at Guantánamo Bay.

Jacopo Brancas, detto Ticchie, è stato trovato morto dalla polizia. Ticchie, un classico topo di biblioteca, stava studiando "Historia Fiorentina", un vecchio manoscritto al cui interno si celerebbero delle sconvolgenti rivelazioni sulla morte del grande pittore Masaccio. Il tutto dovrebbe essere collegato a un quadro dell’artista, ‘La Sagra’, andato misteriosamente perduto. L'indomito avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi si trova assegnato al caso e dovrà, ancora una volta, usare tutto il suo ingegno per risolvere l'enigma.

Duncan Cochrane quit politics to escape the sins of his past, but two years later, he's pulled back in to protect his imprisoned son, and a death row inmate who just might be innocent. To do so, he must find new sources of power and new ways to inspire the voters who turned on him.

Greta Vinet Seville, E-Discovery Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at the international law firm of Coarse & Cotton, finds herself on the run from her own firm after absconding with firm data to conduct her investigation, and enlists a diverse cast of friends and experts to help her comb through the mountains of data that confirms a trail of corruption that has shaped generations.

Packend, humorvoll, berührend. Erstmals legt der Meister des Justizthrillers drei Kurzromane vor: Vor drei Jahren hat der Anwalt Mack Stafford eine große Summe Geld veruntreut und ist untergetaucht. Nun liegt seine Frau im Sterben, und Jake Brigance soll ihm dabei helfen, zurückzukehren. Seit zwölf Jahren sitzt Cody in der Todeszelle, und an diesem Tag soll das Urteil vollstreckt werden. Doch er hat noch einen Wunsch. Zwei Brüder führen gemeinsam eine Kanzlei, obwohl sie sich gegenseitig zutiefst verabscheuen. Einig sind sie sich nur in ihrem Hass auf den Vater.

Vor drei Jahren hat der Anwalt Mack Stafford eine große Summe Geld veruntreut und ist untergetaucht. Nun liegt seine Frau im Sterben, und Jake Brigance soll ihm dabei helfen, zurückzukehren. Seit zwölf Jahren sitzt Cody in der Todeszelle, und an diesem Tag soll das Urteil vollstreckt werden. Doch er hat noch einen Wunsch. Zwei Brüder führen gemeinsam eine Kanzlei, obwohl sie sich gegenseitig zutiefst verabscheuen. Einig sind sie sich nur in ihrem Hass auf den Vater. Sie spinnen eine Intrige gegen ihn – mit verhängnisvollen Folgen.

A secret prisoner holds the key to a 30-year old crime. Sam Williams was meant for great things, until a fatal misstep crashed his career. Trying to salvage the remnants is a path which leads him to the wrong place at the worst time - a high security prison in the middle of a riot, and face to face with a man the world believes is long dead. Sam quickly learns someone is willing to do whatever it takes make sure things stay that way. The truth to a decades old mystery might save Sam’s skin, but the clock is ticking.

Nacido en una familia aristocrática venida a menos, Sebastian von Eschburg es un niño solitario e introvertido, con una madre que sólo se interesa por las carreras de caballos y un padre alcoholizado y aficionado a la caza, a quien, no obstante, lo une un fuerte vínculo. Con el tiempo, la extraordinaria percepción del color que posee Sebastian transformará al niño sensible y vulnerable en un famoso fotógrafo, un artista internacionalmente reconocido que plasma en sus obras una tormentosa relación entre ficción y realidad, verdad e ilusión.

Stephen Brasch, a young American lawyer working for the Rockefeller Foundation, comes to Thailand to ‘do good'. When Brasch blows the whistle on a scandalous plot involving Thai government ministers, British and American businessmen and even the most celebrated US presidential candidate of modern times, he finds himself face-to-face with a prime minister who is renowned for taking a gun out of his office drawer and using it.