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Violence
A lot
Moderate-to-strong violence — organized crime; murders; the mob's operations
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
A lot
Strong sexual content — the strip club and prostitution operations are plot elements
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild — organized crime's social world
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Two boys, opposite sides — the tragedy of a friendship that ends in a courtroom; the organized crime operations on the Gulf Coast
What this book is about
Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grow up as friends in Biloxi, Mississippi. Keith becomes a prosecutor. Hugh inherits his father's organized crime empire — strip clubs, prostitution, and political corruption on the Gulf Coast. The Boys from Biloxi is Grisham's most sweeping novel — a multigenerational saga of friendship, crime, and justice.
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Organized crime — strip clubs, prostitution, political corruption
Strong sexual content — sex industry as setting
Multigenerational saga — childhood friends on opposite sides
Grisham's most sweeping novel
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