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Summary: Exciting
Review: This is the first Grisham book I've ever read. The plot is a little unbelievable, but sometimes that's a really good thing in a book. I mean sometimes you just want to read about someone who fakes their own death. I didn't feel that the ending was ever really resolved. But to me that was part of the charm of the novel. But to see how the character gets out of everything and has had everything planned from the start definately takes a little suspension from reality.
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Summary: Unexpected Surprises
Review: Patrick Lanigan once was a well-like, well-paid young partner in a flourishing Mississippi law firm, with a pleasurable future ahead of him. Then he did the most unbelievable thing. He faked his death, watched, nearby in a tree, his own burial, then stole ninety million dollars from his own firm and vanished into the night, ran from his life and into a new one, or did he? But after four and a half years of living on the run, with shadows behind him, shadows that he couldn¡¦t see but only felt, shadows that kept him awake at night, they finally tracked him down. Now he is back home where it all began and where it will all eventually end, as a new story is about to emerge because Patrick knows the truth, something that no one else in the world knows he knows. The truth about money and greed, but perhaps, not enough about it to help him to the end.
The Partner, like many of Grisham¡¦s other books, are full of surprises and a true page-turner. As the story slowly unravels itself, I find myself unable to put the book down. Continuously throughout the book, it is full of surprises, all the way to the very end with the most startling ending. Though my initial reaction to the ending was disbelief and disappointment, nevertheless, when I thought about it, I found it wasn¡¦t that bad after all. How many people fake their deaths, steal ninety million dollars, get caught, then freed with thirty million dollars left and still live happily ever after? Sometimes in life, things just don¡¦t happen the way you expected it to. Sometimes people just aren¡¦t the way you expected them to be. Especially when it comes to money, large amounts of money, let¡¦s say, in the millions. Because sometimes, even the most trusted person, the most unexpected person, can¡¦t protect himself or herself from the seductive desire for more money.
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Summary: Great novel, but others are better
Review: I loved this book, it's definitely in my top ten, However this is not Grisham's best work. I personally think that some of Grisham's other novels like the Firm or the Client. Although this novel is great but there are a lot of others out there.
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Summary: The ending is simply baffling
Review: A young smart Mississippi lawyer Patrick gets wind of a scam his law partners are involved in and turns the tables on them by absconding with their 90 million dollar financial windfall and then disappearing for four years. But Patrick, aided by his new found love, Eva, is so far ahead of his pursuers that he orchestrates his own recapture in South America. The book essentially recapitulates Patrick's elaborate planning in undercutting his partners and in faking his own death. Interrogations and interviews by lawyers and law enforcement personnel are the mechanisms for piecing together the story. The author at times tries to portray Patrick as a victim, but his cocky personality does not support that position. Patrick's ability to be two moves ahead of everyone else borders on the unbelievable, a good example being his certainty that he could be recaptured and beat all charges against him. The book loses tension because it becomes obvious that Patrick is bullet-proof in that he has already thought of every eventuality. In the end, the author comes close to undermining his entire book with an ending that is simply baffling in the context of all that has transpired. You'll have to read it to find out.
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Summary: Surprise
Review: The first time I came across this book I was at my grandma's house and I was reading a Tom Clancy novel and she told me about this book called The Partner by John Grisham. So I went to the book store and read the back cover and I was instantly interested. I started to read and I couldn't put it down. It was a real page turner. This was the first John Grisham Novel that I had read and his characters always keep you wondering what they are going to do next. The book was full of surprises and the ending is a complete surprise. You would have never guessed it would happen. I would recommend this book to everyone but especially to people like books with surprises.
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Summary: Talky
Review: "The Partner," John Grisham's 1997 crime novel about a superlawyer on the lam pitted against his beautiful but shallow wife, his well-connected but shallow former law partners, and the military-industrial-political-financial-legal-insurance-press complex of the entire Western world, is decent beach reading. No more, no less. Told largely through flat, deposition-style dialogue -- a narrative technique, as old as Richardson, in which characters tell a story simply by relating to each other what happened before the novel began -- the book features a heavily diagrammed (and largely implausible) plot, morally ambiguous characters, swatches of local color (here, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Brazil), plenty of cynicism about the motives of powerful men, and a final twist that, because of the limited character development, rings false. Graham Greene's standard of literary criticism was defined by a question: is there anyone in this book you'd care to invite to lunch? I don't think so here. Grisham aficionados may find "The Partner" to die for. For anyone else, save this talky book for a lazy day at the beach. Robert E. Olsen
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Summary: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Review: ONCE AGAIN A CLASSIC . GRISHAM FINDS MORE WAY'S TO GET LAWYER'S IN AND OUT OF TROUBLE, YET IT NEVER GETS BORING. HE IS BETTER THEN CLANCY, ALOT OF DETAIL <NOT OVERDONE LIKE CLANCY> A GREAT STORY AND MOST DEFINATELY TWIST AND PLENTY OF ACTION.
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Summary: I am a new Grisham fan!
Review: I recently discovered John's work. I am an author of nonfiction and have always enjoyed true stories. However, for pure, unadulterated, can't-book-the-book-down feeling, Grisham is the one. The partner has a surprise twist at the end that will leave you wondering "who can we trust?" Don't miss it. Kasey Hamner, M.S., author of "Whose Child?" and "Adoption Forum"
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Summary: Compelling reading
Review: Patrick Lanigan is a minor partner in a Biloxi law firm when he is killed in a car accident. Not long after the accident, he is found to have milked the firm of $90 million and is actually in hiding, waiting for time to pass so that he can start a new life. He is tracked to Brazil and, when captured, is tortured to force him to reveal where the money is hidden. It's a fascinating book with tortuous twists and turns and which could only have been written by someone with a solid legal background. A great read !
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Summary: Run Away!
Review: A Review by Jason One day a young lawyer from Memphis -Patrick- snaps. He fakes his own death in a car crash and disappears. Six weeks later ninety million dollars disappears from the firms account. The only person that could have taken the money was Patrick. The firm began its journey to find Patrick. It took them through the Brazilian Rainforests, France, and finally to the small Brazilian town of Ponta Pora. There is only one person who knows were the money is not who you think it is... I like how the book holds you in your seat without wanting to get up to do anything else. It is suspenseful and exciting. John Grisham is a magical writer who makes you "see" the characters in your head. There are so many points of view here, and from many different places in the world. It brings excitement in every page as you race through the Brazilian Rainforests, the small town of Ponta Pora, and the streets of Memphis. It has theft, murder, the law, and the FBI. It has a ear-shattering climax that explodes. I give this book a four star rating. It has a good plot and is a great story. I would recommend this book to people of all ages and who like to read big novels.
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