The Runaway Jury by John Grisham is basically about a case in which Mrs. Wood, whose spouse died of lung cancer, sues the tobacco industry. Something is different about this case however. The tobacco industries have already been sued eight or nine times already and the lawyers for the plaintiffs had started getting better arguments while the speculators on Wall Street were starting to get weary of the situation. The case goes on and on and the jury eventually uses all of its three alternates. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, both the defendant’s and the plaintiff’s lawyers are cutting deals and playing games to manipulate the jurors. The most notable of which is the ten million dollar deal the defense makes with an outside source connected to one of the jurors. At the very end of the trial the jury is persuaded to vote against the defense while at the same time sources for the defense find out that part of the person’s family that they cut the deal with had died due to lung cancer. Also at the same time, the person uses the ten million in the stock market to make a profit and then gives the ten million back.