The Partner - John Grisham

I chose The Partner, banking on the popularity and success of John Grisham?s books as well as movies. This paperback book, stamped #1 New York Times Bestseller on the front cover, was published in 1997. Working in the field of law himself, Grisham has written many books that fall in the category of legal thrillers. Not very well acquainted with this author?s highly praised writing, I decided to try one of Grisham?sbooks. The Partner opens with several characters conspiring to kidnap a man named ?Danilo?, who is living in Ponta Pora, Brazil. In the next series of events, we discover that people have been searching for Danilo for over four years. Danilo is ...  Read the complete review

The Partner is the 8th novel from the award winning legal thriller author John Grisham. With a background as a lawyer, Grisham has applied his learnt trade to his novels with great effect. The Plot Patrick Lanigan had it all: beautiful family, lovely house, great job at a top law firm. He was riding high on life. Then, one day, he dies in a sudden car crash, and everything ends. His family mourn, and his company rue the loss of a great employee. Until, that is, $90 million disappears from the company's funds a mere few days after Patrick's death. Suspicious, they realise all is not what it seems, and Patrick has conspired to fake his own death and ...  Read the complete review

Classic Grisham is how I would sum up The Partner. The story involves a Partner of a firm realising he is on his way out whether he likes it or not. Before he gets the push he fakes his own death and steals a huge sum from the Partnership account. The book opens in Brazil when the main charcter's (Patrick) past is about to catch up with him. He is caputred and tortured by people working on behalf of the Partnership who are trying to recover the money. Patrick has a woman in Brazil (Eva) who he has taught how to keep the money away from the authorities should he get caught. The story involves Patrick, Eva, the authorities and the Partnership's heavies ...  Read the complete review

Well the next Grisham book I come to is The Partner and despite what some people seem to think no he’s not paying me (although any cash would be much appreciated). He seems to be an author who sticks to a set and regiment style but he makes this style work well. Although the subject matter probably doesn’t appeal to everyone, Grisham has a way of drawing you into the book. He started his professional career as a lawyer but back in the early 90’s decided to branch out a little and started to write Novels. He draws a lot on his own knowledge of law and mixes it well with fictitious events to make a decent story. From his earliest work, A Time To ...  Read the complete review

I’ll be honest with you (first time for everything eh!) I’m not that much of a reader, I tend to watch the film adaptation of many novels rather than reading the original source material, examples of this would have to be other Grisham releases such as ‘The Firm’, ‘The Pelican Brief’, ‘The Rainmaker’ and ‘The Client’. Many people (myself included strangely enough) would argue that a book is often far superior to any film counterpart – a quick example would be ‘Sphere’ by Michael Crichton – terrific book, terrible film, but that’s a different Op altogether. Knowing that I ...  Read the complete review