They found him much thinner, down considerably from the two hundred and thirty pounds he’d been carrying when last seen.His hair and skin were darker, his chin had been squared, and his nose had been slightly pointed.Subtle changes to the face.They’d paid a steep bribe to the surgeon in Rio who’d performed the alterations two and a half years earlier. Grisham's intricate, spellbinding sixth novel differs from his last few--it's his only book with first-person narration and his first since his debut to be set in a courtroom--but the trademark Continue reading » Readers will find an amiable travelogue to Italy and its charms in Grisham's latest. What they won't find are the suspense and inspired plotting that have made the author ( Continue reading » Only a few megaselling authors of popular fiction deviate dramatically from formula--most notably Stephen King but recently Grisham, too. He's serializing a literary novel, A Painted House, in the Continue reading »

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Danny Boy snored heavily as prints were made of all eight fingers and both thumbs.The Americans and the Brazilians crowded around, watching every move. There was unopened whiskey in a box by the door, just in case this was the real Danny Boy. Inspired by the best-selling author's own childhood in rural Arkansas, this 2000 novel tells the story of how a seven-year-old farm boy and his family are changed by a particular cotton harvest. Continue reading » Se spune ca fiecare om are pretul sau. V-ati gandit vreodata care ar fi suma pentru care v-ati vinde sufletul? Dar trupul? Dar totul? When burnt-out lawyer David Zinc quits his job at a major corporate firm, a stress-induced nervous breakdown, heavy drinking, and the prospect of unemployment lead him to the doors of the seedy law Continue reading » There is some mild swearing. There is no sexual content apart from some references to nudity. There is some graphic violence including torture scenes which will upset some. Grisham fans may enjoy this, I doubt anyone could have predicted the ending!

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Fans of the bestselling Grisham will be pleased to note that he is once more on Firm ground: his latest legal thriller offers a clever, compelling plot coupled with two singular protagonists sure to Continue reading » John Grisham's ninth novel, The Street Lawyer (Doubleday) opens as an armed homeless man invades a Washington, D.C., law firm and takes nine attorneys hostage. Continue reading » The ending was satisfying and surprising. "Where else could he go? His journey was over. His past was finally closed." (PG. 401) I thought this was a highly entertaining legal thriller--implausible maybe, but who cares as long as it's fun?--until the very end. It lost a whole star with that ending. If you're going to pull off a twist like that, it needs some additional foundation. Foreshadowing. Something. Gussow, Mel (March 31, 1997). "Grisham's Escape Into Legal Thrillers (Published 1997)"– via NYTimes.com.

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I was impressed with this book even though it's a departure from the usual Grisham fare and I hope he decides to write a sequel to explain the maddening ending. Why did you read this book? This smart and smooth audio edition of Grisham’s 1991 novel—now a television series on NBC—about attorney Mitch McDeere and his wife, Abby, captures everything that made the book so popular. Narrator Continue reading »A man is hiding out in Brazil under an assumed identity. Four years before he had been a partner in a successful law firm in America. By all accounts he was happily married and adored his daughter. But then, he had died in a car accident. Shortly afterwards ninety million dollars had disappeared from a client.....It's only a matter of time before the man is found and positively identified, but who will get to him first? When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. They were afraid to dig too deeply into the current life of Danilo Silva.If he was in fact their man, then he had plenty of money.And cash always worked wonders with the local authorities.For decades, cash had bought protection for Nazis and other Germans who’d smuggled themselves into Ponta PorÒ. Grisham's gripping fiction debut describes the inner workings of a law firm set up by the Mafia to launder money and concoct tax evasions. Mitchell McDeere, third in his class at Harvard Law, is Continue reading »

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The Partner (1997) is a legal/thriller novel by American author John Grisham. [1] It was Grisham's eighth novel. Credevo d’aver letto almeno un Grisham, forse due, parecchio tempo fa, senza particolare entusiasmo. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. They saw him leave home in the red Beetle.He was in a hurry, came the report. He raced across town to the airport, jumped on a small commuter at the last moment, and was gone.His car was parked in the only lot, and they watched it every second of every hour.The plane was headed in the general direction of Sao Paulo, with four stops in between.Another pause while Stephano arranged his thoughts, a process that usually took milliseconds."The money?" Don’t speak," came the reply from Osmar, in English.The Brazilian to Danilo’s left removed a syringe from a small metal box and deftly filled it with a potent liquid.Osmar pulled Danilo’s wrists tightly toward him while the other man jabbed the needle into his upper arm.He stiffened and jerked, then realized it was hopeless.He actually relaxed as the last of the drug entered his body.His breathing slowed; his head began to wobble.When his chin hit his chest, Osmar gently, with his right index finger, raised the shorts on Danilo’s right leg, and found exactly what he expected to find.Pale skin. Now, who you may think is innocent and a victim throughout this story turned out to be guilty. The very person you thought was guilty was actually the person who is instrumental in putting a lot of people away on corruption charges, including former partners at his law firm and a U.S. Senator. Oh what a tangled web this story weaves.