The summons / John Grisham.
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TextPublication details: London : Century : Arrow, c2002Description: 341 p. 391 p. ; 25 cm. ; 18 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0712684263 :; 071268431X (airport ed.); 0099406136 (pbk.)Subject(s): Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Legal thrillers | Wills -- Fiction | Mystery fiction | Legal stories | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Law teachers -- Fiction | Brothers -- Fiction | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction | Suspense fiction | Law teachers -- Virginia -- Fiction | Brothers -- United States -- Fiction | Fathers and sons -- United States -- Fiction | Inheritance and succession -- United States -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Brothers | Fathers and sons | Inheritance and succession | Law teachers | Secrecy | Mississippi -- Fiction | United States | VirginiaGenre/Form: Suspense fiction | Legal stories | Legal stories | Suspense fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Legal fiction | Thrillers (Fiction). | Legal stories. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PS3557.R5355 | S86 2002cOther classification: 18.06 Summary: Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate. Ray reluctantly heads south, but the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret which Ray believes only he knows. Until it becomes clear that someone else knows too...
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First published by Century, 2002.
Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate. Ray reluctantly heads south, but the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret which Ray believes only he knows. Until it becomes clear that someone else knows too...
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