He plans to get to Millie Dupree through blackmailing her husband through a tape that has him trying to bribe an official. Rankin Fitch, a shady "consultant" who has directed eight successful trials for the tobacco industry, has placed a camera in the courtroom in order to observe the proceedings in his office nearby, plotting many schemes to reach to the jury. Before the jury in the Pynex trial has been sworn in, a stealth juror, Nicholas Easter, has begun to quietly connive behind the scenes, in concert with a mysterious woman known only as Marlee. The trial is to be held in Biloxi, Mississippi, a state thought to have favorable tort laws and sympathetic juries. Wendall Rohr and his team of tort lawyers have filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Celeste Wood, whose husband died of lung cancer, against the tobacco company Pynex. The third printing ( ISBN 7-1) bears a movie-themed cover, in place of the covers used on the first and second printings. The novel was published again in 2003 to coincide with the release of Runaway Jury, a movie adaptation of the novel starring Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz. Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 ( ISBN 5-X). The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 ( ISBN 4-3). I urge you to go if you can - though as I write it is already 3/4 sold out.The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. Without being hyperbolic, it was up there as one of the top art experiences of my life. They retain their mysterious power, and it is in fact enhanced by being amongst their own. The paintings positively glow from the walls, and because there are so few, it's easy to spend a lot of time with each, and to walk back and forth between them, comparing and contrasting. The curators have done a wonderful job presenting them in a very Vermeer manner, on soberly painted walls with plenty of space around each. I was thrilled to be there and feel for myself what it's like to be among 28 of Vermeer's 37 known works. I was reviewing it for BBC Radio and for The Art Newspaper, but I ended up getting interviewed about All Things Vermeer: his enduring qualities, his appeal, and how much my novel played a part in boosting interest in him.That last question was hard to answer without sounding either immodest or too modest! This became apparent last week when I visited the new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam during Press Day. Indeed, I seem to have become something of a Vermeer ambassador.
Little did I know that 25 years later I would still be talking about that painting and that painter. In February 1998 I began researching the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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