title: The Chamber: A Novel
author:  John Grisham 
description: "Mesmerizing... with an authority and originality... and with a grasp of literary complexity that makes Scott Turow's novel's pale by comparison -- Grisham returns." -- <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>.<br /><br />"A dark and thoughtful tale pulsing with moral uncertainties... Grisham is at his best." --<i>People</i>.<br /><br />"Compelling... Powerful... <i>The Chamber</i> will make readers think long and hard about the death penalty." -- <i>USA Today</i>. <br /><br />"His best yet." -- <i>The Houston Post</i>.<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
zlib_text: The Chamber 
  John Grisham 
   
     
  Young lawyer Adam Hall volunteers to take on the defence of a convicted murderer on 
  Mississippi's Death Row. His client is seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall, whose crime was 
  the killing of two Jewish children in a 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing. Sam despises 
  lawyers and Northern liberals, and there is little hope that he will hire the young man. But 
  Adam has a secret, hitherto hidden in his own tortured past - he is Sam's grandson. Adam 
  wants to find out what drove his father to suicide, destroying his family, and the answer 
  lies with Sam, unrepentant and as prejudiced as the Old South. 
   
    
  Acknowledgments  
   
  I was a lawyer once, and represented people charged with all sorts of crimes. Fortunately, 
  I never had a client convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. I never had to go 
  to death row, never had to do the things the lawyers do in this story. 
   
              Since I despise research, I did what I normally do when writing a novel. I found 