The Reckoning

<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BEST SELLER • John Grisham''s most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet • “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.” —<i>USA Today</i></b><br> <br><i>October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi<br></i><br> Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime.  Pete''s only statement about it—to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family—was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave.<br>           <br> In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible jou