A TIME FOR MERCY

Novel. Clanton, Mississippi, 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid 16 year old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. As Brigance digs in, he finds there is more to the story than meets the eye, and he puts his career, and the safety of his family on the line to save the boy from the gas chamber.