‘No one does it better than Grisham’ – Telegraph
A father’s guilt. A son’s redemption.
Thirty years have passed since eleven-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the Cubs’ golden-boy Joe Castle, in a contest from which no winners emerged.
Now the news that his father is dying brings the memory of that day flooding back. Deciding that it’s time to face up to what really happened on that baseball field in 1973, father and son make their way to Calico Rock, Arkansas, where either redemption or rejection awaits them.
What readers are saying about CALICO JOE
‘Hooked from start to finish’ – 5 STARS
‘Riveting’ – 5 STARS
‘A delicious meal of a book!’ – 5 STARS
350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM
A father’s guilt. A son’s redemption.
Thirty years have passed since eleven-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the Cubs’ golden-boy Joe Castle, in a contest from which no winners emerged.
Now the news that his father is dying brings the memory of that day flooding back. Deciding that it’s time to face up to what really happened on that baseball field in 1973, father and son make their way to Calico Rock, Arkansas, where either redemption or rejection awaits them.
What readers are saying about CALICO JOE
‘Hooked from start to finish’ – 5 STARS
‘Riveting’ – 5 STARS
‘A delicious meal of a book!’ – 5 STARS
350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM
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A superbly written book
An enjoyable, heartwarming read
The best thriller writer alive
No one does it better than Grisham
A superbly written book
An enjoyable, heartwarming read
The best thriller writer alive
No one does it better than Grisham
A superbly written book which . . . deserves a place on any family bookshelf'
An enjoyable, heartwarming read
The best thriller writer alive
No one does it better than Grisham
Grisham knocks it out of the park