Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life. That secret has fallen into the hands of the wrong people, and the only way Kyle can protect it is to play their game.

This novel is a story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. Luke helps his family pick the cotton from the farm that they rent. He finds himself keeping secrets that threaten the crops and will change the life of his family forever.

When people outside of Clanton, Mississippi, hear that a black man has killed 2 whites, the town is filled with an angry mob determined to tear down, burn and destroy anything and everyone who opposes them, including defence lawyer Jake Brigance.

In a courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into the water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Supreme Court, and tries to fix the case by planting their own man as a supreme justice.

Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, a man with dangerous friends.

With 14 years left on a 20 year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Backman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. Smuggled out of the country, he is given a new identity and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Backman has serious enemies from his past.

Adam Hall is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. Why would he want a complete novice to defend him?

The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. When Clay Carter reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington DC every week.

In 1970, The Ford County Times, one of Mississippi's weekly newspapers, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by 23-year-old college drop-out, Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgittt family.

Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem.