In the novel, “The Runaway Jury,” John Grisham uses a man by the name of Nicholas Easter to be a part of the jury in a tobacco litigation trial that could have the domino effect for many years to come. Not knowing much about his life, Grisham informs us of Nicholas’s background in Law School, with only 2 years being completed. Even though he just works as a photographer/journalist, Easter is still able to identify those individuals that are spying on him, despite their best efforts to remain undetected. He is able to point out their flaws in manipulation and deception, as his own manipulation and deception prevails over all others, along side the mysterious Marlee. As these two work together, their main goal is to provide the greatest verdict for the plaintiff’s side that will cost the defense hundreds of millions. On top of this reason, Marlee and Nicholas are working to provide this verdict in an attempt at revenge, after Marlee’s sister committed suicide when she was younger, her family sued the gun company and lost, and they discovered that Fitch was behind it all, leaving them bankrupt and impoverished. This is the great change in the main character, as Nicholas was, at first, working to provide a verdict, but then he changed his motives that reveal how him and Marlee simply wanted to avenge Marlee’s loss as a child. This is their attempt to receive their own compensations for her deprived life and how they’re working to make Fitch’s life ten times more difficult than it is now, especially after he has basically turned himself in to the judge, listing all of his faults and disobedience of the legal laws that he has sworn an oath to. Ultimately, Marlee and Nicholas accomplish the tasks that they wish to achieve, with no regard for laws and manipulation being their primary tool.