The Chamber

Knowing his uncle will surely die without his legal expertise, Hall comes to the rescue and puts his dazzling career at stake, while digging up a barnyard of skeletons from his family's past. . "The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease." So begins Grisham's legal leviathan The Chamber, a 676-page tome that scrutinizes the death penalty and all of its nuances--from racially motivated murder to the cruel and unusual effects of a malfunctioning gas chamber. Adam Hall is a 26-year-old attorney, fresh out of law school and working at the best firm in Chicago. Cayhall, a card-carrying member of the KKK, is on death row for killing two men.

"Incredible!" according to D. Gaines. The way Grisham develops each character and the raw emotion he paints these scenes with is simply mesmerizing. I literally felt like I was in the story being escorted through each scene like my own personal tour of life on death row all the way to the final moments lead. John Grisham at his best This is a real page turner which I expect from John Grisham novels. There is some racist language, but the characters who say it are the villains in the novel. I am in a minority and was not offended by the language. To have "washed" the language to avoid offending peop. Another home run for Grisham I've been stuck on John Grishams books for awhile now. I can't remember how many I have read now, but I do know that I have yet to find one I didn't like. The story lines and characters are so well thought out. I really enjoyed the chamber with the main story line of a

Adam Hall is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He is on death row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. Why would he want to take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time.. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past