“John Grisham is… well, you know who John Grisham is. His 29th legal thriller, ‘The Whistler’, a tale of corruption in the judiciary, sits in Grisham’s customary seat atop the current New York Times best-seller list. It prompted Janet Maslin, one of the paper’s book critics, to write that the author has ‘fought harder for truth, justice and the American way than anyone this side of Superman.’ And not just in his novels. He answered questions from The Marshall Project by email.”