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The Summons

A Novel

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham
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By John Grisham
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    About The Summons

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.

    Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep.

    The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Summons

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.

    Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep.

    The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Summons

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.

    Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep.

    The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Summons

    Books are cloth-bound, signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, gold stamping, a slipcase, and a ribbon marker.

    Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He’s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family’s black sheep.

    And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.

    With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

    Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray.

    And perhaps someone else.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Summons

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.

    Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep.

    The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Summons

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.

    Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep.

    The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

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    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Anchor
    Sep 27, 2005 | 304 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | ISBN 9780385339599

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 28, 2012 | 384 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780345531988

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $35.00
    Published by Doubleday
    Feb 05, 2002 | 352 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385503822

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $250.00
    Published by Doubleday
    Apr 09, 2002 | 352 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385503839

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 16, 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780307576095

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 05, 2002 | 528 Minutes | ISBN 9780553755190

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    “The Summons ranks as my absolute favorite in many years…[with] an ending too delicious and morally instructive to give away.”—USA Today

    “A pleasure to read…a good yarn.”—The Washington Post

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