John Grisham is one of the most widely read fiction writers today.
This review is to pay tribute to one of his best selling novels that later was adapted to
become a hit Hollywood film.
The Partner is one of John Grisham’s most gripping novels.
Patrick Lanigan, weighing 230 pounds, is a partner in one of Biloxi’s thriving firms.
His beautiful yet unfaithful wife Trudy and their 6 year old daughter Ashley live in
Biloxi.
Patrick is not happy with the marriage and knows for sure that Trudy is having an extra marital affair.
Then, he plans a plan.
He decides to steal 90 million dollars from his own firm and runs like hell!!!
For this he feigns his own death, and ironically witnesses his own burial.
He runs to Brazil and gets lost in the 20 million population.
In the meantime he manages to lose almost 80 pounds, gets his nose and chin changed and acquires a deep tan.
But the men back home in Biloxi are hell bent to get their 90 million dollars.
And one day, Patrick Lanigan is caught on the jungles of Brazil and is brought home.
It look the firm 4 years to track down shrewd Patrick.
During this time, Lanigan found an able accomplice in Eva Miranda, a beautiful lawyer from Sao Paulo and confided all his dark secrets to her.
Back home in Biloxi, Patrick is tried for capital murder, fraud and faces a life sentence or a even bad punishment of spending a lifer in Parchman, a jail known for its ruthlessness.
To help him out, Lainigan chooses his old friend Sandy Mc Dermott to fight for his case.
All said and done, Patrick Lanigan doesn’t know where his 90 million is.
It has been cleverly moved from Malta to Bahamas and somewhere else that only Lanigan’s lover Eva knows.
But all Patrick Lanigan Knows for sure is that HE KNOWS THE TRUTH!!!
A beautifully written novel that compels you to read it in one go.
If you are a Grisham fan and love to read thrillers, then The Partner is a sure read.