John Grisham - Ha ölni kell (2022)

In the United States, in the darkest South, two white men, driven wild by alcohol and drugs, rape and torture a ten-year-old black girl almost to death. The child's father, driven mad by humiliation and pain, doesn't trust the justice system and takes revenge: he washes away the disgrace of his daughter with blood. Then all hell breaks loose. The flags of the resurgent Ku-Klux-Klan cover the city, crosses are burning in the gardens at dawn. The racist organization announces a pogrom and intimidates anyone who comes to the defense of the black man. In this atmosphere full of life-threatening threats, the trial of the black father begins, which raises the serious moral question in the midst of breathtaking excitement: can self-judgment be justified in such an extreme situation, is the letter of the law or the elementary sense of justice more important?
If You Have to Kill is Grisham's first novel, which only later became a bestseller, and the film made of it was also a worldwide success. The master of legal crime was inspired by real events to write the story of a Vietnam veteran hero and Jake Brigance, an ambitious young defense attorney. In several Grisham novels - Sycamore Row and the author's latest book, Mercy - Jake Brigance proves invincible in the courtroom.