A gripping legal thriller that explores the most brutal and dark aspects of racist violence in a small town in the South, in the state of Mississippi. The murder of a ten-year-old girl by two ruthless drunken young men shocks the white population of Clanton. Determined for revenge and immediate justice, the African American father of the victim takes matters into his own hands, and for ten days Clanton literally burns. The American nation watches developments in silence, while the young defense attorney Jake Brigance fights a desperate battle to save his client's life... and then his own...

"The Verdict" marks the debut of the famous American author, the work with which he began his writing career. It was released a few years before "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief," which elevated the debuting and highly promising author to a superstar of world literature. A new edition for the Greek language translated by the multi-award-winning Giorgos Barouxis.