A Time to Kill & The King of Torts

Two from the master of the legal thriller: A Time to Kill:The life of a 10-yr-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men.

The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime, until her father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands.

For 10 days, with burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spreading through the streets of Clanton, Mississippi, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jack Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own.The King of Torts: When Clay Carter of the public defender's office 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 D.C.

every week.

But as he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe.