#1 bestselling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful surprising and
suspenseful thriller yet. "A murder mystery a courtroom drama a family saga . . . The
Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors
will think the counselor has made his case."-USA Today October 1946 Clanton Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton Mississippi's favorite son-a decorated World War II hero the
patriarch of a prominent family a farmer father neighbor and a faithful member of the
Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early drove into town and committed a
shocking crime. Pete's only statement about it-to the sheriff to his lawyers to the judge to
the jury and to his family-was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was
willing to take his motive to the grave. In a major novel unlike anything he has written
before John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey from the Jim Crow South to the jungles
of the Philippines during World War II from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the
Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him. Reminiscent
of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling The Reckoning would not be complete
without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense and he delivers on every page. Praise
for The Reckoning "The quest for justice is only the beginning in this Southern family saga.
. . . [Grisham] does so much more this time around."-Akron Beacon Journal "John Grisham is not
only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition. And these
remarkable skills converge in The Reckoning-an original gripping penetrating novel that may
be his greatest work yet."-David Grann New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the
Flower Moon "John Grisham is the master of legal fiction and his latest starts with a
literal bang - and then travels backward through the horrors of war to explore what makes a
hero what makes a villain and how thin the line between the two might be."-Jodi Picoult #1
New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things
