The Runaway Jury - John Grisham > Reviews

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...in John Grisham's new novel The Runaway Jury. It's a timely legal thriller: Giant tobacco companies versus the giant anti-smoking lobby. Three-pack-a-day, 30-year smoker Jacob Wood is dead and his widow's lawsuit becomes all things to all involved; plaintiffs' lawyers want to open the door on tobacco liability, and the industry wants it slammed shut. Grisham puts The Runaway Jury's court action in Biloxi and flavours it with the Gulf Coast's gambling ... Read review

Advantages: Good chacters, original plot, well written
Disadvantages: nothing springs to mind

...such an awful pun for the title of their opinions deserves all the Not Helpful ratings that can be mustered. Apologies and please don't. For anyone who hasn't read or heard about this book it's based around a courtroom battle between a coalition of prominent American Litigators suing Big Tobacco on behalf of the widow of a man who died from smoking, the intention being to set a precedent enabling them to make billions suing on behalf of all smokers. ... Read review

Advantages: Marvellous plot
Disadvantages: Doesn't read well second time around

The American jury service gets John Grisham treatment in this book, as he tells the story of a manipulated trial. Grisham has proved once again how successfully he can tell a story. The plot of The Runaway Jury is inspired, and as he so often does, Grisham unravels the plot expertly, revealing just enough to keep you reading. I was absorbed in this book from start to finish, and I found the characters interesting. This would make a good read for anyone, ... Read review

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The Tobacco industry versus the world is the setting for The Runaway Jury. A story of dirty dealings in the Jury box. Another fantastic plot from Grisham keeps you pinned to the book and an astute choice of current legal issues in the battle for tobacco companies trying to keep legal liability at bay. One juror in particular has an ulterior motive and has an uncanny knack of being one step ahead of his pursuers. I have now become the archetypal Grisham ... Read review

Advantages: Very enjoyable story
Disadvantages: A little far fetched

The Runaway Jury is a very interesting read, if a little far fetched. The story is very enjoyable and centres around a tobacco trial which has high media interest. The main characters, as you would expect, are the jury members. You get to know the characters very well and can relate to them by the end of the book. The book has many amusing moments in it and is very cleverly written. If you can suspend your belief in patches you will thoroughly ... Read review

Advantages: Really great grisham book with good ending
Disadvantages: Not much really

...excellent Grisham book that concerns the Tobacco indsutry. The industry is being sued for millions but can an insider on the Jury get the result the tobacco industry so desperatly need? Can they find out who this person and their background is before it is too late? The story is exciting from the word go with the intrigues of jury selection to the expulsion of some of the jurists for various (fakes) mistransgresions. The book is both fast pased and ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent pace, and the characters are briliantly crafted
Disadvantages: 500 pages, may be a slight put off, but shouldn't be for the experienced reader

...Jury has a leader and the verdict belongs to him. The subtitle was instantly intriguing, but the quality of the story exceeds intriguing. Grisham has proved himself over the course of around a dozen books to be an instinctive storyteller. This book only emphasises this fact. At close to 500 pages, this is one of Grishams longest works, but there is enough suspense and enough twists to easily justify the extra 100 pages or so. Grisham consistently ... Read review

Advantages: A really interesting read
Disadvantages: Quite confusing

...got to be one of the best books I have read recently. It is very cleverly written and interesting. It is very informative about American jury service and trial procedure. One drawback must be that I totally want to do what the main character in the book does. There is a very good moral at the end which is quite unexpected. It is a very manipulative book and it is not entirely clear what the characters motives are and who is involved. It is totally ... Read review