Unputdownable from start to finish is the best way to describe The Chamber , a legal thriller written by John Grisham and published in 1994 by Doubleday. It covers the story of one Sam Cayhall, a Klansman in the mid-1900s, who is arrested for blowing up the office of Jewish lawyer Marvin Kramer, resulting in the death of Josh and John Kramer -- his two sons -- and injuring Kramer himself. After fourteen years and two mistrials, the jury convicts Sam and sentences him to death by lethal gas . He is sent to languish in the Mississippi State Penitentiary silently awaiting the day he has to go. Enter Adam Hall, a bright young lawyer from the top Chicago law firm Kravitz & Bane. The novel then revolves around Adam’s efforts to save Sam from sure death by the State, successfully bringing forth in the minds of readers important questions about the cruelty of the methods used to kill convicted criminals and the practice of state-sanctioned killing itself. Writing crime fiction a...
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