The Summons (Chivers W4W)

by John Grisham

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Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man that lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly heads south. But the meeting does not take place. The judge dies to soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhapes someone else...
  • ISBN10 0440241073
  • ISBN13 9780440241072
  • Publish Date 17 December 2002 (first published 25 January 2002)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc
  • Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
  • Pages 373
  • Language English