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The Reckoning: A Novel Gebundene Ausgabe – 23. Oktober 2018
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October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
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.
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete’s defense attorney tries desperately to save him.
Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham’s signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.
Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe432 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberDoubleday
- Erscheinungstermin23. Oktober 2018
- Abmessungen16.66 x 3.73 x 24.46 cm
- ISBN-109780385544153
- ISBN-13978-0385544153
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—Associated Press
“John Grisham is not only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition. And these remarkable skills converge in The Reckoning—an original, gripping, penetrating novel that may be his greatest work yet.”
—David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon
“John Grisham is the master of legal fiction, and his latest starts with a literal bang — and then travels backward through the horrors of war to explore what makes a hero, what makes a villain, and how thin the line between the two might be.”
—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things
“In this saga of love and war, John Grisham has given us a sprawling and engrossing story about a southern family, a global conflict, and the kinds of secrets that can shape all of us. From the courtrooms and jails of rural Mississippi to the war-torn Pacific, Grisham spins a tale that is at once entertaining and illuminating.”
—Jon Meacham, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America
“When a master of storytelling and suspense takes on one of the most wrenching stories in history, the result is a book that will break your heart, set your blood pumping and your mind racing, and leave you gasping for breath by the final page. I’m still trying to recover from The Reckoning.”
–Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic
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Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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On a cold morning in early October of 1946, Pete Banning awoke before sunrise and had no thoughts of going back to sleep. For a long time he lay in the center of his bed, stared at the dark ceiling, and asked himself for the thousandth time if he had the courage. Finally, as the first trace of dawn peeked through a window, he accepted the solemn reality that it was time for the killing. The need for it had become so overwhelming that he could not continue with his daily routines. He could not remain the man he was until the deed was done. Its planning was simple, yet difficult to imagine. Its aftershocks would rattle on for decades and change the lives of those he loved and many of those he didn’t. Its notoriety would create a legend, though he certainly wanted no fame. Indeed, as was his nature, he wished to avoid the attention, but that would not be possible. He had no choice. The truth had slowly been revealed, and once he had the full grasp of it, the killing became as inevitable as the sunrise.
He dressed slowly, as always, his war‑wounded legs stiff and painful from the night, and made his way through the dark house to the kitchen, where he turned on a dim light and brewed his coffee. As it percolated, he stood ramrod straight beside the breakfast table, clasped his hands behind his head, and gently bent both knees. He grimaced as pain radiated from his hips to his ankles, but he held the squat for ten seconds. He relaxed, did it again and again, each time sinking lower. There were metal rods in his left leg and shrapnel in his right.
Pete poured coffee, added milk and sugar, and walked outside onto the back porch, where he stood at the steps and looked across his land. The sun was breaking in the east and a yellowish light cast itself across the sea of white. The fields were thick and heavy with cotton that looked like fallen snow, and on any other day Pete would manage a smile at what would certainly be a bumper crop. But there would be no smiles on this day; only tears, and lots of them. To avoid the killing, though, would be an act of cowardice, a notion unknown to his being. He sipped his coffee and admired his land and was comforted by its security. Below the blanket of white was a layer of rich black topsoil that had been owned by Bannings for over a hundred years. Those in power would take him away and would probably execute him, but his land would endure forever and support his family.
Mack, his bluetick hound, awoke from his slumber and joined him on the porch. Pete spoke to him and rubbed his head.
The cotton was bursting in the bolls and straining to be picked, and before long teams of field hands would load into wagons for the ride to the far acres. As a boy, Pete rode in the wagon with the Negroes and pulled a cotton sack twelve hours a day. The Bannings were farmers and landowners, but they were workers, not gentrified planters with decadent lives made possible by the sweat of others.
He sipped his coffee and watched the fallen snow grow whiter as the sky brightened. In the distance, beyond the cattle barn and the chicken coop, he heard the voices of the Negroes as they were gathering at the tractor shed for another long day. They were men and women he had known his entire life, dirt‑poor field hands whose ancestors had toiled the same land for a century. What would happen to them after the killing? Nothing, really. They had survived with little and knew nothing else. Tomorrow, they would gather in stunned silence at the same time in the same place, and whisper over the fire, then head to the fields, worried, no doubt, but also eager to pursue their labors and collect their wages. The harvest would go on, undisturbed and abundant.
He finished his coffee, placed the cup on a porch rail, and lit a cigarette. He thought of his children. Joel was a senior at Vanderbilt and Stella was in her second year at Hollins, and he was thankful they were away. He could almost feel their fear and shame at their father being in jail, but he was confident they would survive, like the field hands. They were intelligent and well‑adjusted, and they would always have the land. They would finish their education, marry well, and prosper.
As he smoked he picked up his coffee cup, returned to the kitchen, and stepped to the phone to call his sister, Florry. It was a Wednesday, the day they met for breakfast, and he confirmed that he would be there before long. He poured out the dregs, lit another cigarette, and took his barn jacket off a hook by the door. He and Mack walked across the backyard to a trail that led past the garden where Nineva and Amos grew an abundance of vegetables to feed the Bannings and their dependents. He passed the cattle barn and heard Amos talking to the cows as he prepared to milk them. Pete said good morning, and they discussed a certain fat hog that had been selected for a gutting come Saturday.
He walked on, with no limp, though his legs ached. At the tractor shed, the Negroes were gathered around a fire pit as they bantered and sipped coffee from tin cups. When they saw him they grew silent. Several offered “Mornin’, Mista Banning,” and he spoke to them. The men wore old, dirty overalls; the women, long dresses and straw hats. No one wore shoes. The children and teenagers sat near a wagon, huddled under a blanket, sleepy‑eyed and solemn‑faced, dreading another long day picking cotton.
There was a school for Negroes on the Banning land, one made possible by the generosity of a rich Jew from Chicago, and Pete’s father had put up enough in matching funds to see it built. The Bannings insisted that all the colored children on their land study at least through the eighth grade. But in October, when nothing mattered but the picking, the school was closed and the students were in the fields.
Pete spoke quietly with Buford, his white foreman. They discussed the weather, the tonnage picked the day before, the price of cotton on the Memphis exchange. There were never enough pickers during peak season, and Buford was expecting a truckload of white workers from Tupelo. He had expected them the day before but they did not show. There was a rumor that a farmer two miles away was offering a nickel more per pound, but such talk was always rampant during the harvest. Picking crews worked hard one day, disappeared the next, and then came back as prices fluctuated. The Negroes, though, did not have the advantage of shopping around, and the Bannings were known to pay everyone the same.
The two John Deere tractors sputtered to life, and the field hands loaded into the wagons. Pete watched them rock and sway as they disappeared deep into the fallen snow.
He lit another cigarette and walked with Mack past the shed and along a dirt road. Florry lived a mile away on her section of land, and these days Pete always went there on foot. The exercise was painful, but the doctors had told him that long walks would eventually fortify his legs and the pain might one day subside. He doubted that, and had accepted the reality that his legs would burn and ache for the rest of his life, a life he was lucky to have. He had once been presumed dead, and had indeed come very close to the end, so every day was a gift.
Until now. Today would be the last day of his life as he knew it, and he had accepted this. He had no choice.
Florry lived in a pink cottage she had built after their mother died and left them the land. She was a poet with no interest in farming but had a keen interest in the income it...
Produktinformation
- ASIN : 0385544154
- Herausgeber : Doubleday; 1. Edition (23. Oktober 2018)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Gebundene Ausgabe : 432 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 9780385544153
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385544153
- Abmessungen : 16.66 x 3.73 x 24.46 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 788,609 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 2,561 in Justiz-Thriller
- Nr. 19,898 in Suspense-Thriller
- Nr. 27,582 in Kriminalromane (Bücher)
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"John Grisham hat über dreißig Romane geschrieben, die ausnahmslos Bestseller sind. Zudem hat er ein Sachbuch, einen Erzählband und sieben Jugendbücher veröffentlicht. Seine Werke werden in fünfundvierzig Sprachen übersetzt. Er lebt in Virginia.
©Autorenfoto: Michael Lionstar"
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Derzeit tritt ein Problem beim Filtern der Rezensionen auf. Bitte versuche es später erneut.
Mein Urteil über die letzten zwei Grishams (Camino Island, Rooster Bar) sind nahezu identisch, wenn man es auf einem hohen Level betrachtet:
Interessante (Hintergrund-)Geschichten, gut und angenehm geschrieben, ABER - keinerlei Spannung. Alles liest sich total super, läuft flüssig durch die Hand - man bleibt aber komplett im Ruhepuls.
Und nun - "The Reckoning":
Bitte lesen Sie die eben geschriebene Kurzzusammenfassung meines Urteils über Camino Island und Rooster Bar.
Im Ernst. Grisham Schreibt auch The Reckoning in gewohnter angenehmer Manier. Die Charaktere sind interessant, die Story an sich wirklich interessant, gerade auch das Umfeld in Mississippi in den 1940er Jahren. Man lernt viel über die Rassentrennung, Baumwollanbau und über den Weltkrieg in Südost-Asien.
Aber, mit Thriller hat das ganze nicht im Entferntesten was zu tun. Es ist halt "a novel". Nett. Mehr leider nicht.
Ergänzungen:
1. Die Aufklärung der Geschichte wird mMn viel zu lange hinausgezögert.
2. Bitte in den "author's notes" mal lesen, wie Grisham zu dieser Geschichte gekommen ist. Erklärt meiner Meinung nach einiges.
ENGLISH:
Without going too deep into details - my judgement on the last two John Grisham releases (Camino Island, The Rooster Bar) is pretty much identical:
Nice story, easy to read, BUT - not at all thrilling or something like that. Again, easy to read, kind of a page turner - but your pulse remains on rest level.
And now - "The Reckoning":
Please re-read my short review on Camino Island and The Rooster bar and you've got my feedback on The Reckoning.
Seriously, also Grisham's latest release is easy to read, a nice story with interesting characters, nice insights on the 1940s in Mississippi. But has nothing in common with something I consider a thriller.
It is nice, but that's it already, unfortunately.
Notes:
1. It takes way too long to come to the final point in this book. Most of the pages are filled with explaing things and telling side-stories.
2. please see at the end of the book the author's notes. There Grisham explains how he came to this story. I think this is explaning part of the problems with the story in total.
Die Geschichte beginnt mit einem unglaublichen und zunächst nicht nachzuvollziehendem Verbrechen. Später fügen sich dann die Bruchstücke zusammen.
Besonders beeindruckend fand ich die Schilderung der Auswirkungen dieser einzelnen Tat auf das Schicksal der gesamten Familie.
Rich themes of consequences, the danger of knowing too much or too little, and the hypocrisy of our view of violence in war, run through this novel. A must read!
Spitzenrezensionen aus anderen Ländern
It is also to be appreciated when a writer steps out of his/her usual format and explores areas that are not so familiar - either to the writer or the reader. It is for this reason that John Grisham’s latest novel, The Reckoning, is to be valued and assessed. Grisham could easily, and profitably, have remained with his usual construction of crimes committed and solved, but, and this is a possible secret of his success as a novelist, he occasionally steps out of his comfort zone and tackles something that is new to form and topical in content.
We have seen Grisham’s change of gear in his book of short stories (see Ford County), and his focus on festivities (see Skipping Christmas), as well setting a novel outside of his usual locations (see Playing for Pizza). These named books may not possess Grisham’s usual gravitas, but they display the range of his writing capabilities. Now comes a novel that, once again, introduces something new into his writing.
In The Reckoning, Grisham makes a return to what must be his favourite location, Clanton, Mississippi, to relate the narrative of “an unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial that followed it, and its profound and lasting effect on the people of Ford Country.” The initial location may be well explored by Grisham and well known to his readers, but the literary pictures he paints with his story show how expertly he can recall and describe characters and their location and situations. The focus is on a returning war hero, Pete Banning, a prominent and popular person in Clanton. But the crime he commits seems inexplicable, and the person who is the victim of that crime and those related to him seemingly undeserving.
As the story of this mysterious and unforgettable crime is unfolded, the reader is allowed to delve into the military background of Pete Banning, focusing on the events he experienced when the grossly outnumbered American and Filipino troops were engaged in brutal fighting against the Japanese on the island of Bataan during the 2nd WW. Peter Banning was second-in-command of his platoon and experienced all the horrors of this military engagement. But he survived and came home.
This information is vital to the progress of Grisham’s narrative and is, in no way, superfluous to the overall drama of the story. It is another example of this master storyteller’s skill in outlining personal background and story into his characters. As one newspaper said, “No one does it better than Grisham.” This novel, with its references to war and sexual topics, shows that he has an experienced command of and is unafraid to deal with topics that some might consider are outside of his literary orbit.
The first major instalment of the story, the crime, is followed by the second instalment, the background of the criminal - especially his war experiences and relationships with his family. The third instalment of this gripping story, the drama of the courtroom - its procedures, involvement of individual actors, and the outcomes of the criminal prosecution - provides a dramatic and memorable conclusion to the novel.
This is a story that propels the reader on to discover more of what is the background and experience of the characters, the present circumstances of their lives, and how these two features are interlinked. It is the 33rd of John Grisham’s published fictional novels (excluding the Theodore Boone series), and it does full justice to the writing that has gone before. Clanton is back on the map and shares the importance of locale with the Melanesian Island of Bataan (and the memory of its famous Death March), whilst Pete Banning, the Reverend Dexter Bell and related persons join the list of Grisham’s hard to forget characters.
This is yet another of John Grisham novels that will reward the discerning reader with an intriguing story, detailed characterisation, developing but related plots, and 432 pages of enjoyable reading. The version under review is available with a hardback cover at an economical price. Highly recommended, and not just for aficionados of John Grisham.