The Partner
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They hired him. They trusted him. Now they don't want justice--they want revenge....
For four years, Patrick had often wondered how it would feel if they caught him.
Now he was terror-stricken. Practically naked and strapped down like an animal, he knew the next few hours would be insufferable....
Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partne...
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Book Description
They hired him. They trusted him. Now they don't want justice--they want revenge....
For four years, Patrick had often wondered how it would feel if they caught him.
Now he was terror-stricken. Practically naked and strapped down like an animal, he knew the next few hours would be insufferable....
Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm--and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich, powerful, and would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down.
Now Patrick is coming home. And in the Mississippi city where it all began, an extraordinary trial is about to begin. As prosecutors circle like sharks, as Patrick's lawyer prepares his defense, as Patrick's lover prays for his deliverance and his former partners wait for their revenge, another story is about to emerge. Because Patrick Lanigan, the most reviled white-collar criminal of his time, knows something that no one else in the world knows.
He knows the truth....
Amazon.com
Literary slugger John Grisham returns with a story about-- surprise!--a lawyer in trouble. Patrick Lanigan had been a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. He had a beautiful wife, a new baby girl, and a bright future. Then one winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car; the casket they buried held nothing but ashes.
A short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial then fled. A fortune was stolen from his ex-firm's offshore account. And Patrick ran, covering his tracks the whole way.
But, now, they've found him.
From Kirkus Reviews
Grisham (The Client, 1993, etc.) justifies a colossal first printing of 2.8 million copies with his best-plotted novel yet, gripping the reader mightily and not letting go. Nor is there the dispersal of belief that often follows his knockout openings. Patrick Lanigan is tracked down to his hideout in Brazil, where he lives modestly near the Paraguayan border. Surely, Jack Stephano thinks, Patrick could not have spent the $90 million he ran off with four years ago. Jack has spent $3 million tracking Patrick down, and he wants that money. He wants it so much that he's blithely torturing Patrick to discover its location. The problem is that Patrick doesn't really know. He's given power of attorney to his lover, the brilliant Brazilian lawyer Eva Miranda, and she has been shuttling the money from bank to bank around the world, keeping it untraceable. When Patrick fails to call her at four in the afternoon, per usual, she skips out, as they've planned, and goes into hiding. And as planned, she phones the FBI office in Biloxi, Mississippi, and tells them that one Jack Stephano has very likely captured Patrick and is holding him in Brazil. The FBI puts pressure on Stephano to bring Patrick back to Biloxi, where the embezzlement took place and where Patrick's cremated remains were buried after his car went over an embankment. Patrick even attended his own funeral, watching through binoculars. As it turns out, the $90 million he ran off with was dirty money his law firm had helped collect in a criminal conspiracy to rob the government. Will the money be returned? Will Patrick escape trial for the murder of whoever it was that died in that accident? And what of Eva, now hiding in the States and helping Patrick orchestrate his defense? Grisham comes up with a masterfully bittersweet end (with his title taking on a sly double edge) that may be his most satisfying ever. (First printing of 2,800,000; Literary Guild main selection)
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length: (cm)17.3 width:(cm)10.1
约翰·格里森姆1955年2月8日出生在美国阿肯色州的琼斯保罗市。这是美国南方一座美丽的小城。绿色田野、温和气候、醇厚民风以及文化氛围都在他的故事中留下了踪影。
约翰·格里森姆是一位颇受读者欢迎的多产司法题材小说家,仅二十世纪九十年代卖出的小说总数就达六千万册,创造了小说销售的奇迹。然而,格里森姆的创作道路并不是一帆风顺的,当他推出处女作小说《杀戮时刻》的时候,没有得到出版商的广泛认同,遭到了三十家出版商的拒绝。虽然一家小出版商勉强同意出版他的《杀戮时刻》,但是他本人还要代为销售,可见他当时的困难和阻力该有多大。但是随着他第二部小说《律师事务所》(又译《陷阱》)的问世,格里森姆的命运发生了根本的转变。还没有等到这部小说来得及出版,好莱坞制片业巨头派拉蒙以六十万美元的高价买走了它的电影版权。原来,好莱坞在纽约的一个电影文学“探子”不知通过什么渠道打探到了...
约翰·格里森姆1955年2月8日出生在美国阿肯色州的琼斯保罗市。这是美国南方一座美丽的小城。绿色田野、温和气候、醇厚民风以及文化氛围都在他的故事中留下了踪影。
约翰·格里森姆是一位颇受读者欢迎的多产司法题材小说家,仅二十世纪九十年代卖出的小说总数就达六千万册,创造了小说销售的奇迹。然而,格里森姆的创作道路并不是一帆风顺的,当他推出处女作小说《杀戮时刻》的时候,没有得到出版商的广泛认同,遭到了三十家出版商的拒绝。虽然一家小出版商勉强同意出版他的《杀戮时刻》,但是他本人还要代为销售,可见他当时的困难和阻力该有多大。但是随着他第二部小说《律师事务所》(又译《陷阱》)的问世,格里森姆的命运发生了根本的转变。还没有等到这部小说来得及出版,好莱坞制片业巨头派拉蒙以六十万美元的高价买走了它的电影版权。原来,好莱坞在纽约的一个电影文学“探子”不知通过什么渠道打探到了这部手稿,读了之后大为赞赏,并把手稿复印了二十五份送给好莱坞的主要电影制片厂。据说,这时格里森姆对此事还毫不知情。但无论如何,他的命运得到了彻底的改变。