Libro entretenido de Grisham, se lee rápido aunque su desenlace se ve venir a las leguas, podría tener más puntaje casi la totalidad del libro está bien construida, lastima el final del mismo , sin ningún sentido ni configuración previa, una especie de castigo al personaje principal que no viene al caso.

Nota:6/10

"Poor John Grisham. He pretty much single-handedly creates a genre, achieves blockbuster status with only his second novel, and every further effort flies off the bookstore shelves and onto the movie screen. And then, when he writes yet another of his books, everyone bashes him for being boring.^M ^M
Like The Firm, this is a novel about a man who is preternaturaly clever at figuring out the details. The protagonist is the same, although the name has been changed. I imagine this is Grisham's response to all those people who must have asked: ""But didn't they come looking?"" There are no surprises if you've read Grisham's other books, and plenty if you haven't. The most distinguishing factor for this book is a strong moral sensibility that hasn't been expressed since A Time To Kill. It isn't art, but it is fast-paced and cleverly plotted, which is why you pick up a Grisham after all."

A man jogging down a lonely road in Brazil is kidnapped and tortured, accused of being Patrick Lanigan, an American lawyer who was thought to have been killed in an automobile accident four years earlier--about the same time that $90 million disappeared from his law firm's offshore account. If he really is Lanigan, everyone wants a piece of him: his former partners, the client that the money came from, his wife, the insurance companies, the feds . . . Everyone. So is this guy really Patrick, and if so, what's his plan?

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.

It felt like a cheap shot, manipulative and tacked-on, and left me more annoyed than an insurance company out a few million dollars. Or at least as annoyed as a reader out several hours and $26.50.

My recommendation: rip the last few pages out of the book and pretend they were never there. *plugs ears* Lalalala!

It was a most enjoyable hoot reading this book again, since the last time was in 2009.

Grisham (The Client, 1993, etc.) justifies a colossal first printing of 2.8 million copies with his best-plotted novel yet, gripping the reader mightily and not letting go. Nor is there the dispersal of belief that often follows his knockout openings. Patrick Lanigan is tracked down to his hideout in Brazil, where he lives modestly near the Paraguayan border. Surely, Jack Stephano thinks, Patrick could not have spent the $90 million he ran off with four years ago. Jack has spent $3 million tracking Patrick down, and he wants that money. He wants it so much that he's blithely torturing Patrick to discover its location. The problem is that Patrick doesn't really know. He's given power of attorney to his lover, the brilliant Brazilian lawyer Eva Miranda, and she has been shuttling the money from bank to bank around the world, keeping it untraceable. When Patrick fails to call her at four in the afternoon, per usual, she skips out, as they've planned, and goes into hiding. And as planned, she phones the FBI office in Biloxi, Mississippi, and tells them that one Jack Stephano has very likely captured Patrick and is holding him in Brazil. The FBI puts pressure on Stephano to bring Patrick back to Biloxi, where the embezzlement took place and where Patrick's cremated remains were buried after his car went over an embankment. Patrick even attended his own funeral, watching through binoculars. As it turns out, the $90 million he ran off with was dirty money his law firm had helped collect in a criminal conspiracy to rob the government. Will the money be returned? Will Patrick escape trial for the murder of whoever it was that died in that accident? And what of Eva, now hiding in the States and helping Patrick orchestrate his defense? Grisham comes up with a masterfully bittersweet end (with his title taking on a sly double edge) that may be his most satisfying ever Decent read, enjoyed the story, would recommend. Maybe not as strong as others, still good.

"After his death, the firm's letterhead properly included him: Patrick S. Lanigan, 1954-1992. He was listed up in the right-hand corner, just above the paralegals. Then the rumors got started and wouldn't stop. Before long, everyone believed he had taken the money and disappeared. After three months, no one on the Gulf Coast believed he was dead. His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up." (PG. 40)

I'm stuck between a 4 or 5 star but it was a criminally amusing, fast-paced thriller. Grisham knows how to tell a story with so many twists and turns that I'm sure the reader would think this type of crime isn't doable. Who can steal 90 million dollars from their law firm, die, and come back to life in Brazil after four years on the run? Mr. Patrick Lannigan, that's who. Did he do it for greed or revenge?

The plot unravels at a pace where maybe you won't have much sleep tonight or the next until you finish it. The brain to create this crime and the work it took was pretty amazing. Grisham also shows the disappointing angle of the justice system but we all know justice is all in who you know and that money talks.

The ending was satisfying and surprising. "Where else could he go? His journey was over. His past was finally closed." (PG. 401)

Such a fascinating read from page 1. I will do more of these white-collar thrillers. My nails are very chewed up.

4 Stars for Partners (audiobook) by John Grisham read by Mark Deakins.

This is a fast paced and hard hitting crime story. There is definitely some gray lines and a little moral ambiguity thrown in.

Patrick Lannigan bangkit kembali dr kematiannya.

Setelah hampir 5 thn melarikan diri dan melanglang benua Amerika dan Eropa, Patrick ditemukan dlm keadaan nyaris kritis. Dihadapkan pd berbagai tuduhan, dari penggelapan uang sebesar 90 juta dollar, hingga pemalsuan kematiannya, menyeret dirinya utk membeberkan dan menuntaskan satu per satu masalah pelik yg jatuh beruntun menimpa dirinya.

Thriller dgn penceritaan yg dituturkan dr tokoh utama bukanlah tema yg saya sukai. Cenderung membosankan dan situasi kondisi hanya berkisar di ranah itu-itu saja. Tidak ada debaran jantung yg bergolak saat membaca buku ini. Spt biasa, author memberikan twist-twist ala pengacara yahud yg menyeret Patrick ke dunia kejahatan.

Entah dimulai dr pernikahannya dgn wanita jalang hobi selingkuh, membuat Patrick menyusun rencana jahatnya utk menghilang dan dinyatakan meninggal, tetapi jg sekalian melenyapkan uang 90 juta dollar tsb. Patrick tidak diragukan lagi adalah bajingan licik yg super cerdas, tapi jelas tidak punya garis kehidupan yg baik.

An enjoyable puzzle, which became a bit predictable, to me, after the Trudy skewer. However, still an interesting story.

Now and again I like reading a bestseller. I was inspired to read this one after having read 'The Bestseller Code' a few weeks ago. Then I found it for 30 pence in a charity shop.

If you want to read something that promises to be a page turner but isn't, that has at least one sympathetic or complex character, that is inclusive and treats women as agents, that foreshadows its plot twists so that you notice when they happen -- then look elsewhere. For a bestseller-cum-thriller (was it even a thriller? hard to tell -- I was so un-thrilled), this one is surprisingly slow. I grasped that the characters weren't going to involve me emotionally, and then I realised that there was a cast of confusing hundreds and till the end, I wasn't sure which one exactly was the main protagonist. But having grasped all that, I thought, well, at least the plot would keep me going.

It did not.

There's a lot of lawyerly stuff which COULD be twisty and turny but it isn't. Crucial characters appear on page 350 in a deus-ex-machina fashion. I didn't really care about any of it, and I didn't even know WHAT I should be caring about.

Also: there is torture. The torture is not treated with adequate seriousness. The torture is used as a plot device and at times treated with levity. Women mostly feature as nameless 'wives' or 'pretty secretaries' and the men invariably ogle the 'girls' legs. Everybody is white. People of colour are mentioned twice: the 'gentle' natives of Brazil, and the violent 'black punks' that would await the white male lawyer in jail and rape him -- and he's terrified of them.

This book was fast pace and very intriguing I love every moment and I did not expect that plot twist but I absolutely loved it.
5 stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Grisham never disappoints. The plot got better as the pages went by, and each line I read surprised me and kept me on my toes - right up until the very last page. I won’t be able to wait long before picking up another of his awe inspiring books!

Well, another DNF, I’m afraid.
It’s been a long time since I read and loved The Firm, but I don’t remember Grisham being this dry.
This is a very interesting story. A fascinating presentation of facts but where this really suffers for me is a lack of character development. I feel absolutely nothing for them.
And while the story does have its interesting aspects, so far it has read like a 200 page prologue; a total lack of immediacy in the narrative.
So, I’m out.