The Racketeer
The gripping crime thriller from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author
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4.2 • 939 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
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A judge has been brutally murdered.
His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just two dead bodies - the judge and his secretary - and one state-of-the-art safe, opened and emptied.
Ex-attorney Malcolm Bannister knows who killed the judge - and why. The FBI need to know his secrets. And Bannister is ready to talk. But there's a catch: he is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence.
Bannister knows that everything has a price - and this racketeer wasn't born yesterday.
💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER💥
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'A six star read with more twists and turns than Ariadne's Labyrinth'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Grisham (The Litigators) is back in top form with this twisty, precisely plotted legal thriller that eschews the civics lessons of some of his more recent work. The masterful opening introduces disgraced Virginia lawyer Malcolm Bannister, who has served half of a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering after getting caught up in a federal net aimed at a sleazy influence peddler. Bannister s conviction has, naturally, destroyed his life, but he thinks he can use the murder of federal judge Raymond Fawcett to his advantage. Fawcett, who presided over a landmark mining rights case, and his attractive secretary, with whom he was having an affair, were both found shot in the head in his cabin in southwest Virginia. Near the bodies was an empty open safe. When the high-profile investigation stalls, Bannister tells the feds that he can identify the killer for them in exchange for a release from jail and the means to start a new life. The surprises all work, and the action builds to a satisfying resolution.
Customer Reviews
The racketeer
Excellent read
The Rackateer
This book took me longer to read than any other John Grisham novel I have read before, and I have read them all. It took so long because it never grabbed my interest the way many older John Grisham stories did. The plot never seemed plausible and I got the feeling it was churned out to fulfil a contractual obligation. It lacked the sense of reality that older books did and I think this is confirmed by Grisham himself in the cursory author's note at the end in which he more or less admits to the novels shortcomings. Talking of endings, it seemed to me that he got fed up trying to finish the story and just stopped as quickly as he could with no real ending and no real satisfactory tying up of the many loose ends. I kept waiting for the real twist in the tail but it never came. A very poor offering from Grisham who once once held high in my esteem but has been sliding lower and lower in it recently.
Q.E.
Pretty Good
I have been a big John Grisham fan for years but have been disappointed in recent times with his books. This one, whilst not on a par with his earlier books, is a return to somewhat of his former glory. Expensive though and only 300 pages - I read it in 3 hours and for £11, that is not great value. Worth a read though