Jake Brigance, a lawyer with a gift for convincing juries but not for making any money, was the star of Grisham’s 1989 novel A Time To Kill. It was almost 25 years before Grisham had Brigance enter the courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi for a second time in Sycamore Row, and now the gifted attorney is back for a third, seemingly impossible case. But while the author and his readers have had more than 30 years to reflect on Brigance’s legal brilliance, in fictional Ford County, it is still 1990.