{"product_id":"9780099538332","title":"The Summons","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRay 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.\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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 No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.\u003cbr\u003eWith the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss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.\u003cbr\u003eRay 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.\u003cbr\u003eAnd perhaps someone else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003ci\u003eJOHN GRISHAM\u003c\/i\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSkipping Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Painted House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brethren\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTestament\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Street Lawyer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Partner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Runaway Jury\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rainmaker, The Chamber\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Client\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pelican Brief\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Firm\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Time to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arrow Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051104911600,"sku":"9780099538332","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780099538332_p0.jpg?v=1763639243","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780099538332","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}