The Humpherys Family

The Runaway Jury

Record Added: 5/25/2014
Author 
Setting United States
Topic Adult Fiction, Classics
Publisher Doubleday Publishers
ISBN 0385472943   Year 1996
Age Adult   Pages 401
Description Printed dustjacket
 
Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymousyoung woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important,why?