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...Innocent Man: A True Story" by John Grisham (Doubleday; October...
...John Grisham is throwing his full personal support behind this, his first nonfiction book, even showing up at Doubleday's BookExpo luncheon. The book is the story of a man who is exonerated of raping and killing a waitress by DNA evidence, only five days before his 1999 execution. His confident publisher simply put a huge picture of the mega-bestselling author in its catalog, with the tag line, "Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction...
...breakthrough came in 2004 with Paranoia, set in a high-powered telecom firm in a fictional Silicon Valley locale. He followed Paranoia, his first New York Times best seller, with another, Company Man, about the old-line office-furniture industry. Finder had found his niche: John Grisham--like thrillers starring business people instead of lawyers. Finder is careful to explain, though, that his books rely on human emotion, not corporate scheming, for their drama. "They're not about high finance," he says. "They're a portrait of life in the corporate world, with regular people...
...afraid anymore. I guiltily admit it: I love Crichton and Brown and John Grisham and Michael Connelly, with all their novels about dinosaurs and bishops, lawyers and detectives...
...Lincoln Lawyer” can be described as the anti-John Grisham novel. All those idealistic, Wonderbread-eating young lawyers and greedy, cigarette-manufacturing corporations are nowhere to be found—they both must be strictly Southern things...