This is the multi-million copy bestselling thriller that introduced Jake Brigance to Clantonand has now inspired a sequel Sycamore Row When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men they invade the town determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer But in the maelstrom of Clanton it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed