John Grisham published his latest thriller Rogue Lawyer on October 20. As it may be expected the novel directly occupied the bestselling lists.
However, this is one of the few books by the famous lawyer, who turned writer that received mixed reactions from the readers. Currently the thriller is standing with unexpected average of 3.5 Amazon stars from 140 reviews.
For all Grisham fans Land of Books is featuring him and his new book at our 13 Facts rubric

Rogue Laywer is the 41th book by John Grisham.

The main character Sebastian Rudd has future. “I hope it’s the first of a series of stories, books about this guy,” told Grisham in CBS interview

For the first time one of Grisham main protagonist is compared to other well known character. Charles Finch wrote for USA Today that Sebastian Rudd is “like Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller”. Actually in the novel Rudd admits that he read Connelly’s novels in his free time

According to Grisham, Rogue Lawyer will be better to be adapted as TV Series instead of full movie

9 of his books were adapted to movies. The Associate, The Testament and Calico Joe are scheduled to become movies in near future. He wrote screenplays for two other movies

The Client and The Firm became TV series and was produced with a single season each

Over 300 million copies of Grisham’s books were sold around the world

John Grisham has just 6830 twitter followers. Believe it or not E. L. James got 904 000.

John Grisham has more than 300 million books in print.

Stephen King is the only author that John Grisham is following on twitter

10 years as a lawyer. This is how long the former career of Grisham lasted before turning to a full time writer

$14 million are the earnings of John Grisham for 2015 according to Forbs. He is the 10th most well paid author on the planet. The writer is earning $36 000 per page

The Christianity is very well presented in Grisham’s books. He is regular in church services and even went to Brazil to do some missionary work. Yeah, this is how he describes so well the world in South America’s country in some of his books like The Testament

The first book of Grisham A Time to Kill took three years to be completed. The novel was rejected by 28 publishers and was printed with just 5000 copies

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