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The last juror

The last juror

Book On CD 2004

In 1970, small town newspaper The Ford County Times went belly up. With financial assistance from a rich relative, the paper is purchased by 23-year-old Willie Traynor, its former cub reporter. Soon afterward, his new business receives the readership boost it needs thanks to his editorial efforts and coverage of a particularly brutal rape and murder committed by the scion of the town's reclusive bootlegger family. Rather than shy from reporting o...