The French Illusion
A Novel
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4.2 • 835 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham delivers a gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong—and the nightmare that follows.
After Paul and Chelsea Tanner’s fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.
Propulsive and surprising, The French Illusion is an unmistakable Grisham thrill ride—gripping and impossible to put down.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The life-or-death stakes of a brutal kidnapping give way to an international espionage plot in John Grisham’s fever-pitched thriller. When Chelsea and Paul are kidnapped during their honeymoon in Paris, Chelsea’s well-off parents have no trouble paying her ransom and gaining her freedom. But even after Paul’s middle-class family practically moves mountains to do the same, the abductors refuse to let him go. It’s a situation with kidnapped newlyweds that the FBI’s Andrew Strong keeps encountering—and in every case, the groom served in the military. The story unfolds at a furious pace, and Grisham keeps you just as desperate to discover the criminals’ true intentions as the story’s highly competent investigators. Soon, the action shifts to a CIA agent and a former Justice Department prosecutor as they plan a high-stakes sting operation. It’s a whipsawing thrill ride you’ll never want to end.
Customer Reviews
The French Illusion
Not Grishams best but damn good. I thought ending was a bit contrived.
Not the best Grisham
The plot is too repetitive. Descriptive. No real action. And the end doesn’t do away with the bad guys who end up buying an island in Greece together with a really huge mansion, where the will keep their armory.
Page turner
I couldn’t stop reading this latest Grisham thriller.