From the reader's viewpoint, I see him as a scared kid who thought his mom was dead and who was trying to protect himself and his sister and who was worried that the cops both A) didn't arrive soon enough to suit him and B) wouldn't do anything to Stu since he was one of them. Even though Drew is 16, he's not yet (apparently) gone through the changes of puberty. The plot does bring up some good points to think on: how do you determine maturity in a teenager to decide whether he/she should be charged as a juvenile or an adult is one.
I've read other books by this author and other books in this series. While not as famous to literary nerds like nearby Yoknapatawpha, Ford County is the home of setting of several of Grisham's works, and the two names are likely to be irrevocably associated in the minds of Grisham's fans. Overall, the novel was a fine revisit to Ford County. (Not for nothing, the memory that Buckley was portrayed in the movie by a certain disgraced actor made the character's appearance in this novel feel a bit icky.) Though it may have been a bit of fan-service to mention Buckley as a potential election opponent of Judge Omar Noose, it seemed silly to quote Buckley at the end of the novel, giving him a chance to take a swipe at both Jake and the judge. I disliked some of the subplots, especially the marginal appearance of former District Attorney Rufus Buckley, Jake's legal antagonist from a Time to Kill. This power-distance dynamic does not play out only in the rural American South, but they are quite prominent in this area of the country. Drew Gamble (A Time for Mercy) and Carl Lee Hailey (A Time to Kill) are both on the disadvantaged end of societal scales. Setting the differences aside, however, key themes emerge from both novels: injury and revenge, the dangers of alcoholism, the desperation of poverty, and, perhaps most importantly, the dynamics of power and powerlessness. I personally read A Time to Kill after Grisham's 1991 novel The Firm, and both after their respective cinematic adaptations. These differences in plot carve enough space between the two novels so as not to detract from the pleasure of reading whichever one the reader picks up last. the boy's sister winds up pregnant by the dead man, whereas the little girl is robbed of her ability to have children of her own. the boy avenged the purported death of his mother, while the man avenged the rape of his daughter 3.
a white teenager kills a white police officer, as opposed to a black mill worker killing white thugs 2. The circumstances of the killing are different: 1. As other reviews have noted, the plot is rather similar to A Time to Kill, the first appearance of Atty. Jake Brigance returns for a third attempt at making a name for himself as a lawyer. TW: mild spoilers, reference to alleged sexual offender
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