Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38400 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
At first listen, the narration of this abridged version of John Grisham's The Chamber seems flat and uninvolved. But Michael Beck has chosen his vocal style well, purposely eschewing unnecessary adornment and allowing this searing indictment of racism and murder to unfold on its own terms. Beck uses character voices sparingly, adding subtle emphasis to the already charged plot. The story begins with a Klan-sponsored bombing and then traces a trail of rigged acquittals stretching over three decades, until a young lawyer with secrets of his own brings the case to a powerful conclusion. --George Laney Amazon.com

Synopsis
Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he 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...

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Customer Reviews

The chamber
I thoroughly enjoyed the book good story line, glad adam and his grandfather got together even in those circumstances. very readable book the film is good too and i could not put this book down.

dull and boring forever!!!!!!
After reading the 'The Firm' by John Grisham I thought this one could be as interesting and plot driven. But it is dull and boring and took me nowhere. I was waiting to see some plot might pop up at least in the last few pages and make it interesting but to my frustration it didn't.

Not a good one from a very good author.

Disappointing
This was my fourth John Grisham book (Having previously read and thoroughly enjoyed The Firm, A Time to Kill and The Brethern) and left me feeling very disappointed. The story is interesting as an insight into the emotional turmoil that is going on in the mind of a death row convict however i was continuously waiting for something exciting to happen and it never did.
The reader is always left waiting for this young whizkid lawyer to uncover some secret evidence and cross paths with one of the shady characters who is introduced. He never does. He files a series of standard last minute appeals and thats about it. The storyline was wasted and could have been so much better.