- Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Dell; 30th edition (Jan 7 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440224764
- ISBN-13: 978-0440224761
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 3.2 x 17.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (796 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #103,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Literary slugger John Grisham returns with a story about-- surprise!--a lawyer in trouble. Patrick Lanigan had been a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. He had a beautiful wife, a new baby girl, and a bright future. Then one winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car; the casket they buried held nothing but ashes.
A short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial then fled. A fortune was stolen from his ex-firm's offshore account. And Patrick ran, covering his tracks the whole way.
But, now, they've found him. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Partner (Mass Market Paperback)
The editor of The Partner should be fired. The ending of a book should reward the reader for taking the time to share in the lives of the characters, not punish him/her. This is a brilliant story with fantastic, characters and a driving plot.It has everything I love in a novel, International settings, a sympathetic lead character and plenty of suspense. Grishams typical courtroom drama is at the center of this story but he has done an excellent job of incorporating political intrigue and a touch of adventure. In my opinion it's one of his best until you get to the end of coarse. This joyride of a novel was brought crashing down by an incomprehensible ending. The end of this novel warrants 2 stars but I can't ignore how fantastic the rest of the book was. I'm so angry. I could have loved this book. I won't give away the ending but I recommend stopping with about 20 pages to go and allowing your imagination to finish the book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Portrait of a Flawed Legal Genius,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (#1 HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: The Partner (Mass Market Paperback)
A great lawyer is meticulous, calculating, aggressive, relentless, and prepared for anything. John Grisham lovingly shares an intricate plot to provide you with an unforgettable portrait of those qualities in action. In the process, you'll also see a man whose soul is offended by his profession.Ultimately, this book is about a dream . . . a dream that may be more dangerous than an addictive drug. What will you do to capture your dream? That's what you'll be asking yourself after you read The Partner. The beginning of the book seems like an international espionage thriller. A group of private detectives track down a fugitive to a little town in Brazil near the border with Paraguay. They pounce, and the fugitive is in for his worst nightmare . . . remorseless torture aimed at getting him to tell something he doesn't know. Soon, an unlikely intervention creates a whole new vector for the story. The fugitive has to face the music from a lot of angry lawyers . . . including his former partners. Like many legal thrillers, you'll be getting no more information than you need to know to follow the action. Pay attention to the questions that occur to you: Thinking about what might have happened is half the fun of this book. If you aren't interested in the ins and outs of how lawyers think about criminal issues, you won't like this book as much as I did. I was impressed at how well the legal issues were displayed without being too technical. Remember that lawyers usually spend a lot of time thinking through how the opposing attorney will respond to various probes. Watch out for the unexpected!
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Good novel, bad ending,
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This review is from: The Partner (Mass Market Paperback)
Mr. Grisham works hard to win our sympathy with Patrick Lanigan in the opening pages of this novel, beginning with his kidnap and torture. Then we learn he is a lawyer who has faked his own death and stolen millions of dollars from his law firm, leaving us asking moral questions about Patrick. Is he a good guy or not?As the plot unfolds, we learn that Patrick has been clever, hard-working, and resourceful. He has developed a burning desire to leave the Byzantine world of corporate law and politics in America behind and escape to a simpler life, something most people only dream about. Through his own resourcefulness, he has succeeded in escaping to Brazil where he has fallen in love with a beautiful lawyer from Rio who helps him hide the stolen money. Most compelling of all, we discover after his return to Biloxi that Patrick has killed no-one in faking his own death and that the money he stole was defrauded from the U.S. federal government, money he eventually returns. So Patrick at the end stands exonerated and ethically sound, a thoroughly sympathetic character, if a little worse for wear. His reward is betrayal. The woman he loves and trusts right to the end vanishes with his money, leaving him lost and lonely in a little Brazilian border town. That's just wrong. Mr. Grisham is cynically inviting us to conclude that no-one can be trusted, especially lawyers. This book is only for the hardcore Grisham fan.
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