The Partner

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Summary: The ending...
Review: A fast read. The ending is unexpected and might make you want to hurl the book against the wall, but it's the last of the 2000 plot twists.

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Summary: Engrossing and Wickedly entertaining!
Review: one of his best ever! The part where Patrick Flanigan was captured was so interesting that i could not put down the book to find out what was going to happen to him. But i must admit, i didn't like the ending.

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Summary: It was pretty disappointing!
Review: Everything that Patrick thought would happen happened. The events turned out in the exact sequence and manner he predicted. All we (the readers, his pursuers)did was sit and watch it unfold. I know he was a great attorney, but noone is that thorough! And it doesn't make for an interesting book either. Where's the drama? The only thing that grabbed your attention was the huge amount of money. 90 million dollars! But beyond that, it was pretty boring! Grisham has done better.

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Summary: Illiterates
Review: Just scan through the other reviews; all of the folks who give this novel 5-stars are illiterate--or are too slovenly to correct typing errors. That tells you all you need to know about THE PARTNER

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Summary: an highly provacative and intelligent read!
Review: This was one of my favorite John Grisham novels I have read to date. It was suspenseful and a pleasure to read. I highly recommend this book to a john grisham fan

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Summary: The ending ruined the entire experience of the book!!
Review: Don't bother. Even though the book was lucrative, colorful and interesting, the unrealistic, oversimplified and extremely exasperating ending leaves a bad taste in the reader's mouth. After finishing the book, I felt I wasted my time and I haven't read a novel by the usually talented, occasionally awful Mr. Grisham. It will take me a long time to recover from this pathetic attempt at a Stephen King ending.

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Summary: Mysterious and funny. You never know what will happen next.
Review: John Grisham's The Partner is one of his best yet. It combines great skill with contraversey and scandal, and a little love thrown in for fun. The ending is also a superise, but not wholly unexpected. It gives truth to the saying: Don't trust anybody. It's a book no Grisham fan should be without.

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Summary: Fast action, intiquing plot turns, and a flawed end
Review: "The Partner", in my opinion, is Grisham's second-best novel-and that is saying a very great deal. The story is essentially of a lawyer who discovers that his firm is planning, with a client, to defraud the government, and cutting him out of the profits. So he stages his own disappearance, and manages to steal the money. The companies affected in various ways band together and hire a sleazy detective to find him. He is found in Brazil and almost tortured to death, and then returned to the United States to face charges. None of this is revealing any significant plot because it all takes place in the first chapter. The turns and twists of how the lawyer manages to brilliantly tie up the legal system, and ultimately gets away with a hand slap constitutes most of the rest of the novel. As in all Grisham novels, the pace and action are engrossing. The characters are not as completely fleshed-out as they could be.

The only disappointments are in retrospect, i.e., at least three serious flaws in the plot. If you haven't read the novel yet, stop here. All of these flaws appear to have been tacked-on to the finished novel, perhaps at the urging of an idiot editor. One is that the lawyer is accused of having murdered someone to take his place in his burning car when he disappears. In fact, there is no logical reason for such a dramatic disappearance-much less a murder to cover it. At the time, the theft had not yet taken place and no-one would have been looking for the lawyer if he had just quietly disappeared. The second serious plot flaw is that we discover in the last chapter that he had arranged-years in advance--for his own capture. It would have been much safer to have been captured by a law enforcement agency in the States-perhaps while visiting his mother. Alternatively, with $100 million dollars, his options for avoiding discovery were virtually unlimited. We are asked to believe that the lawyer is a fantastically rich genius who has spent years planning to thwart the system, but yet unnecessarily and intentionally allows himself to be captured and tortured by thugs, in Brazil. As a third highly improbable plot twist, at the very end..

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Summary: Right up there with The Firm!
Review: I am a big John Grisham fan, but have breezed through his last few books with not much fan fair. However, The Partner is definitely back up there with some of Grishams past (and best) novels. The plot is great, but the most brilliant parts are when Patrick is divulging how he got away with his own death. The planning is incredible and even though its fiction, you can't help but think "Why can't I come up with something like that?" The ending is disappointing, but not in a bad way. Its the best, most fitting ending this book could have. What goes around, comes around. Great book... I'd recommend it to everyone!

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Summary: IT WAS SO INTERESTING I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN
Review: This book was fabulous. The more you read the book the harder it is to put down. Grisham does a splendid job of telling an interesting story without any dead spots. The ending though can leave you happy with it or mad. It had a good point that even though Patrick was always prepared that in the end the unexpected can happen.