The Partner

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Story shame about the ending
Review: Very entertaining, it was fun to see how Patrick Lanighan had planned ahead and got away with his prize. yet the ending does not make any sense whatsoever. Not because it was sad, but because throught tbe book the author did not give any background to make this type of ending logical. I understand you have to add an unexpected twist, but this ending is almost an insult to the reader. The Brazilian lawyer could have run away with whole lot of money from the start, and even if she did not want any one to be after her, she still had the money to enjoy at her home town with man she presumabley loved and near her father. Disappointing end to a great book.

Rating:
Summary: Great book
Review: What do you do when you have a hero who is as antiheroic as you can get? Patrick Lanergan has stolen ninety million dollars, possibly burned someone else up in a car that was supposed to be his fiery death; hidden away for four years; and used a lovely lawyer to help him achieve his ends?
Of course as the novel unwinds (and Grisham keeps your interest in spite of this quandary), we find that perhaps Patrick's motives are a lot more noble than one could imagine. Grisham populates his book with some interesting and likeable people (Sandy for instance) and some that aren't fleshed out enough to feel anything about (unfortunately this includes Eva, whose actions at the book's close are rather devastating and one couldn't see it coming).
Patrick's brilliance in his scheme is to be admired, as is Grisham for concocting the whole thing. But it's soulless hero and it's rather unfair ending keep it from being a book it should have been.