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The summons
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- ISBN: 9780307576095 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307576094 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (255 p.) - Publisher: New York : Bantam Dell, c2002.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Mississippi -- Fiction |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Legal stories. Electronic books. |
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- Baker & Taylor
For the first time sinceA Time to Kill, the author returns to Ford County, Mississippi, a place rich in colorful characters and dark family secrets, for his latest legal thriller, as law professor Ray Atlee returns to his hometown at the request of his father, a retired judge, only to find his father dead and himself in possession of a shocking secret. Reprint. - Random House, Inc.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â¢Â A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former selfâa sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.
Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Rayâs younger brother, the familyâs black sheep.
The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else.
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