It's time to kill | John Grisham

In the mid-1980s in the city of Clinton in southern Mississippi; a ten-year-old black girl is subjected to brutal rape by two white young men, who then attempt to hang her, but she survives, and the perpetrators are arrested. The girl's father, a former Vietnam fighter; decides to seek revenge, ambushing them in court and killing them after firing his M-16 rifle and accidentally injuring a police officer, causing him to have his leg amputated. Here begins a series of conflicts, the first between whites and blacks, where the case of the raped girl is used as a pretext for revenge between the two sides. The whites, through the Ku Klux Klan organization, try to show the barbarity of the blacks. The blacks, through the American Civil Liberties Union and thousands of other civil rights defense groups in southern Mississippi; attempt to shed light on racial discrimination against them. Devastating conflicts, brutal acts, and a story about Clinton city that summarizes a struggle between whites and blacks.