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In 2013, Mississippi author John Grisham told Clarion Ledger reporter Jerry Mitchell that 'A Time To Kill' was based on a dreadful crime in Mississippi.
Justin Mitchell, Clarion LedgerJohn Grisham "stole" a story for his latest novel.
He admits literary theft, saying it's a story he heard three decades ago as a Mississippi legislator, where he often drank coffee and listened. "There were some great storytellers there," he said.
His new novel, "The Reckoning," opens, like the story he heard, with a prominent man firing another prominent man three times, driving home and waiting for the sheriff to arrest him. And when the sheriff arrived, the man said: "I have nothing to say."
For Grisham, the new novel, "The Reckoning," varies from the other 39 books he has written.
"I have a lot of loyal fans, they want to be entertained with a quick read," he said. "This is very different, that has been the reaction."
Unlike his previous books, this occurs at a time before he was born.
"It's not necessarily a legal thriller," he said. "Then he takes a turn to the left and goes to war, nobody expects that from me."
He read about a dozen books about Bataan's Death March, he said. "It's hard to believe that the human spirit can survive something like that."
Thousands of the more than 60,000 prisoners of war did not survive the three-month march through the Philippines during World War II.
An Allied military commission concluded later that many of these prisoners of war had been subjected to horrific abuses and murdered unjustly.
Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books in Oxford, who hosted Grisham's first bookstore, praised the thorough investigation.
"John Grisham offers his reliable suspense game and tense legal judgment, but here with some provocative fundamentals of the serious philosophy of the value of a human's life, and the relative difference, if any, between honor in war and the honor in the home. " he said.
Grisham leaves the response to the audience, Howorth said. "It may annoy the reader in search of something more formulated, but I found it impressively heavy."
John Evans, owner of Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson, believes that Grisham's latest novel is a breakthrough.
"It's his most literary work since 'A Time to Kill,'" said Grisham's first novel. "It's great that he goes back to his roots."
Related:A cold-blooded crime in Mississippi inspired 'A Time to Kill' by Grisham
Grisham said that the idea of being literary never crosses his mind.
"I do not think in those terms," he said. "When I start a new book, my goal is to write the best book of all time and deliver a story that attracts readers' attention for a few days and gives them something to think about."
Evans called "The Reckoning" a "humdinger." If people did not know it was a Grisham book, they would think it was a new and sexy writer. "
After his success with the Harry Potter series, the author J.K. Rowling wrote novels under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith.
Early in his career, author Stephen King wrote books with Richard Bachman.
Grisham said he has never considered writing under a pseudonym.
In each case, the true author was finally exposed.
"I'm not sure what the purpose is," Grisham said, noting he has still been able to write other books, including a non-fiction book and one on baseball.
While producing a legal thriller per year, he says he believes he keeps his fans happy.
So far, critics are mixed for his new novel.
Grisham said he never reads criticism.
"They will rarely be good," he said. "When people review popular fiction, you know it's never going to be beautiful."
Sometimes friends send him positive comments or, sometimes, he finds out about the negatives, he said. "I'll hear that 'Grisham was broken in the Washington Post.'"
For him, "life is too short to worry about bad reviews," he said. "I'm almost to the point of leaving me alone."
"The Reckoning" shares the same ending as the story he heard at the State Capitol, where he served as a legislator from 1983 to 1990.
He never wrote the story, but he never forgot the story.
"If anyone knows if it's true," Grisham said, "I'd love to know."
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