Spellbinding, engrossing legal fiction from the world's number one bestselling author.

Adam Hall is a young lawyer in a giant Chicago law firm. He volunteers his services in one of the toughest assignments that any lawyer could take on - the defence of a convicted murderer on Mississippi's Death Row.

His client is seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall. Cayhall's crime was the killing of two Jewish children in a 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing.

Sam's appeals have nearly run their course and he prefers to argue the last of them alone. Despising lawyers and Northern liberals he recently sacked Adam's law firm from the case, and there is little hope that he will hire the young man.

But Adam has a secret more potent than Sam's deepest prejudice, hitherto hidden in his own tortured past. A secret that will persuade the old man to hire Adam and allow him to investigate the murders. A secret which will bring the old racist and liberal lawyer together and forge an inseperable union between them, even to the gates of death.

For Adam Hall is Sam's grandson; estranged for the twenty six years of his life, Adam wants to find out what drove his father to suicide and destroyed his family. The answer lies with Sam, unrepentant and as prejudiced as the Old South. And in the answer, paradoxically, lies Adam's own salvation.

John Grisham's four previous novels have all been number one bestsellers throughout the world. Film rights to The Chamber have been acquired for a Hollywood industry record.