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The Juror

Disciplines:
fiction
usa/new york
crime thriller/thriller
law/legal

Summary

George Dawes Green's 1995 debut thriller — about a juror blackmailed by the mob during a Mafia trial — which became a bestseller and was adapted into a 1996 film with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin.

Core Contribution

Creates the Mafia jury-tampering thriller — The Juror's premise (a juror manipulated by a terrifying mob enforcer) is the most psychologically sophisticated execution of the legal thriller formula.

Historical Influences

John Grisham Thomas Harris

Intellectual Lineage

George Dawes Green Warner Books Film

Allied Works

The Caveman's Valentine The Firm

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Legal thriller genre

Intellectual Posterity

The Juror Film

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