#1 bestselling writer 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 offers produced his case.”

-USA Today

October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi

Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s preferred son-a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch about The Reckoning: A Novel of a prominent family, a farmer, dad, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist chapel. Then one great October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete’s only statement about it-to the sheriff, to his attorneys, towards the judge, to the jury, also to his family-was: ‘I have nothing to say.’ He had not been afraid of death and was willing to take his purpose towards the grave.

In a significant novel unlike anything he has created before, John Grisham requires us on an incredible journey, in the Jim Crow South towards the jungles from the Philippines during Globe War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets towards the Clanton courtroom where Pete’s defense attorney tries frantically to save lots of him.

Reminiscent of the best possible custom of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning wouldn’t normally be full without Grisham’s signature levels of legal suspense, and he delivers on every web page.