Politics has always been a dirty game.
He lives in Virginia and Mississippi..
About the Author: JOHN Grisham has written nineteen previous novels and one work of nonfiction, The Innocent Man, published in 2006.
The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about our electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
Their Supreme Court justice.
They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice.
Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate.
Trudeau.
The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr.
With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court.
Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr.
The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town\'s water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history.
Now justice is, too.
Politics has always been a dirty game
