Still, he makes a great effort to discover her true name and antecedents to satisfy his mounting curiosity. Marlee gives Fitch the impression that the pair's objective is purely mercenary – to sell the verdict to highest bidder. Meanwhile, Marlee – Easter's partner/lover – acts as his agent on the outside, convincing Fitch that Easter controls the jury and can deliver any verdict on demand through a series of highly secretive meetings, in which Marlee repeatedly threatens to disappear if Fitch's team attempts to track her. He also manages to hoodwink and repeatedly manipulate the judge. Eventually, he becomes jury foreman after the previous one falls ill (resulting from Nicholas spiking his coffee). Meanwhile, Easter works from the inside to gain control of the jury – being warm-hearted, sympathetic and helpful to jurors who might be won over, and rather ruthless to those who prove impervious to his efforts. As the case continues, Fitch is approached by Marlee with a proposal to "buy" the verdict.
He also tries to reach Rikki Coleman through blackmail of revealing her abortion to her husband.
He gets to Lonnie Shaver by convincing a company to buy his employer and convince him through orientation. He plans to get to Millie Dupree through blackmailing her husband through a tape that has him trying to bribe an official. Rankin Fitch, a shady "consultant" who has directed eight successful trials for the tobacco industry, has placed a camera in the courtroom in order to observe the proceedings in his office nearby, plotting many schemes to reach to the jury. Before the jury in the Pynex trial has been sworn in, a stealth juror, Nicholas Easter, has begun to quietly connive behind the scenes, in concert with a mysterious woman known only as Marlee. The trial is to be held in Biloxi, Mississippi, a state thought to have favorable tort laws and sympathetic juries. Wendall Rohr and his team of tort lawyers have filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Celeste Wood, whose husband died of lung cancer, against the tobacco company Pynex. The third printing ( ISBN 7-1) bears a movie-themed cover, in place of the covers used on the first and second printings. The novel was published again in 2003 to coincide with the release of Runaway Jury, a movie adaptation of the novel starring Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz. Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 ( ISBN 5-X). The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 ( ISBN 4-3). The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham.
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