

HATTORI: John, "Playing for Pizza" has nothing to do with Papa John's or Shakey's but rather American football in Italy, a country where most people think of football is soccer. JOHN GRISHAM (Author, "Playing for Pizza"): Happy to be here. John Grisham joins us from our studios in New York. But Grisham's latest work is a departure from the courtroom setting.


You know many of the titles - "The Firm," "Pelican Brief," "The Client," "The Rainmaker." He's written 20 books in all. author with seven books racking up a total of more than 60 million copies sold. In the 1990s, he was among the bestselling, if not the bestselling U.S. In the book world, when it comes to legal thrillers, no one is more closely associated with the genre than John Grisham.
