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The Partner

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A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained.

The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a young daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from the law firm.

It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. And the chase was on

416 pages, Paperback

First published February 26,1997
Places
the united states of america, brazil, 

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Format
416 pages, Paperback
Published
April 26, 2005 by Delta
ISBN
9780385339100
ASIN
0385339100
Language
English
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John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts, and A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.

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.

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.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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April 25,2025
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I'll give credit for the amount of details and brain juice needed to string all those massive strategies together for the main character, Patrick Laningan. But the ending was totally predictable from the very beginning. It's not a twist if it is a predictable one. It's just a long journey of showing off how one can get away with many things when planned well.
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aiminaoko
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April 25,2025
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3.7 / 5

"At some point in life everybody thinks about walking away. Life's always better on the beach or in the mountains."

Rewieving this book 18 000 km away from where I was born, on a beach with a view of the mountains.
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Icelord259
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April 25,2025
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Well…Grisham didn’t disappoint, again. This is one of the best ones I read so far. I gave it a 4 because I was really mad about the ending. Not because it wasn’t a good ending. It was a GREAT ending. I’m just pissed because I really liked Patrick. He planned everything so meticulously and it fell into place exactly as it should have. Except the one thing he was sure of. Or at least thought he was sure of.
The plot is about Patrick who fakes death and steals millions of dollars and disappears. Then he gets caught. Bit by bit Grisham reveals a piece of the story a little at a time. Perfect way to keep the reader wanting more. And I did.
Oh but the ending. It was ingenious. But it did not satisfy me. I’ll be thinking about this one for a while. And maybe I’ll come back and change the rating to a 5 once I’m over it.
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HarryTheRizzard
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April 25,2025
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This isn't Grisham's finest work.

There is none of the action of The Firm or The Pelican Brief. It doesn't have the interest of A Time To Kill or The Chamber.

The book starts at the end and then explains what happened. Remember, "Show, don't tell?"

It's a dull story about what happens when you steal a lot of money, and how to keep it hidden. Why not start at the beginning and show what led to the crime and then the escape from justice?

A good editor, agent or publisher should have reminded Grisham of the basics, before letting this book go out. Instead, "the emperor's new clothes" syndrome kicked in, again, and no one told him the truth. Although, to be fair, he should have realised it himself and probably did, but decided to publish anyway.

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jowb63
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April 25,2025
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Till the second last chapter of this book, I kept thinking "John Grisham's novels were always so cool. What happened to this one? I ,mean, it's okay but not what I expected from this author."

Turned out I was wrong. The characters are all very interesting. Especially Patrick/Danillo.And Eva/Miranda was awesome. I loved what she did in the end. This is definetly one of Grisham's best novels. A must-read.
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JMingG
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April 25,2025
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OK, it reads fast and it is entertaining. But I really do not buy the premise that the protagonist would give himself up in a occult way to put a complicated plan in play. Granted without that conceit we would have no story. But if you are going to start a complex mechanism going you had better be sure that no gremlins can spoil it and this is full of gremlins. And then the ending! The whole plot depended on the loyalty of a character that after giving up most of the money and aiding the main character faithfully decides to abscond with the remainder. WTF?
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alifiank
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April 25,2025
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After reading several pretty heavy books about India and the Muslims, I needed a good, old-fashioned thriller. Grisham was what I was craving. This book is sometimes considered his best work, so I had to read it. I mean if it's his best, it goes without saying that I should read it, right? It's pretty exciting, and it's fun to watch the way Patrick Lanigan (the main character) plans and the way John Grisham plots the story. Grisham probably won't ever be taught in a college English course, but he is a master storyteller. And if he ever decided to turn into a criminal, with his mind, watch out!

This one is clean and devoid of language issues. And I stayed up into the wee hours to finish it.
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Bears2002
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April 25,2025
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Another great tale by Grisham, I flew right through it!

The Partner tells us about Patrick Lanigan, who once worked for a high law firm, and after overhearing about a scheme they're conspiring, which Patrick heard he wasn't gonna be in on, and that they were planning to fire him, Patrick splits. He steals millions of dollars from the corrupt firm, fakes his death, leaves the United States and transfers the money to an offshore bank account. Now 4 years later Patrick is living in Brazil under the name Danilo Silva. Until a gang of thugs who were hired by the crooked lawyers to hunt him down find and kidnap him, and demand where the money is, and Patrick says he doesn't know, and they torture him almost to death, but he still doesn't talk.

Now Patrick has returned home and is being put on trial for not only stealing the money but for a murder he did not commit. And he is also filing for divorce. He is assisted by his lover Eva Miranda, and his longtime friend and lawyer Sandy.

Although as much as I enjoyed the storyline, I didn't much like the ending, I felt it was rushed, like bing-bang-boom, and there were a lot of unanswered questions. Still it was an enjoyable read.
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