On Tuesday, the A Time to Kill author told CBS This Morning that the novel was a little dig at his detractors: "I wanted to write a beach book. Grisham admits that Camino Island is a departure from his usual legal-thriller fare, but says that decision is purposeful. Grisham, a man after Millennials' own hearts, credits Google with all his knowledge of how such a heist would go down. Camino Island centers on a rare-book thief who absconds from the Princeton University library with F. Now, Grisham's love of rare books - his own and others - has inspired his latest novel. The author kept only a few dozen copies of his first book, which he says are "buried in the backyard." But Grisham also fields calls from associates who find one of those rare copies of A Time to Kill, and he's "always interested if the book is in great shape." Not only are first-edition copies of A Time to Kill rare and expensive, they're made harder to find by Grisham's own rare-book collecting. The first print run of Grisham's 1989 debut A Time to Kill had only 5,000, cheaply manufactured copies, many of which have not held up to the wear and tear of nearly 30 years on the market. A first-edition copy of best-selling author John Grisham's first book is worth more than $4,000 in very good condition, but you'll be hard-pressed to find one.
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