A Tiance 1) Before The Firm and The Pelican Briefstory of retribution and justice -- at last it&39;s available in a Doubleday hardcover edition In this searing courtrooe depths of racial violenceas he delivers a co tale of uncertain justice in a small southern townClanton, Mississippi The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and re men The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takescrosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client&39;s lifeand then his own