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

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

My third book by John Grisham and I haven't been disappointed yet.

I'll give this one a grudging "check it out" rating. It's the tale of a lawyer, Patrick Lanigan, who had faked his death and then swiped ninety million dollars that his law firm had gathered in a settlement. As the book opens, it is four years later and Patrick is discovered. The rest of the book details how he attempts to escape the civil and criminal cases against him, intertwined with the details of how he pulled off the scam in the first place. Like the other Grisham novels I've read, the characters are well done. This is the first novel, though, where the hero of the tale is an honest-to-Ghandi bad guy. Well, mostly bad guy. Mr. Grisham does a good job of gaining sympathy for the character. Throughout the book, I found myself rooting for Patrick, feeling guilty all the while. Anyway, though it is an entertaining read, this has to be my least favorite of the Grisham novels I've read. While the caper is intricate, it's a bit too flawless. At the end, I have a hard time believing that it could really happen.

2,5*

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.

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.

An ideal fantasy of any corporate lawyer who is itching to escape! This is a fast paced, gripping thriller, very much keeping to Grisham style of narration. A compulsive page turner.

An interesting-enough premise ruined by derivative, cheeseball prose; dragging, tedious storytelling; an irredeemably pompous protagonist suffering from a bad case of macho cool guy syndrome; and—how shocking—sexism.

Not wasting more words on this drivel.

i wanted him to rot in prison so bad

Wow that was simply awesome. And the ending? That totally made this book five stars. It is an amazing fast paced read and there was not a dull moment in the book. Even though I am not from a law background and have very little knowledge of it, I found the book quite easy to understand all thanks to Grisham's wonderful way of spelling every little thing out so effortlessly and effectively. A must read, undoubtedly.

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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️