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THE RACKETEER Paperback – 4 July 2013
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- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHodder Paperbacks
- Publication date4 July 2013
- Dimensions13 x 2.5 x 19.7 cm
- ISBN-101444729764
- ISBN-13978-1444729764
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About the Author
John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade, specialising in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. One day, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987.
His next novel, The Firm, spent 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and became the bestselling novel of 1991. Since then, he has written one novel a year, including The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker and The Runaway Jury.
Today, Grisham has written a collection of stories, a work of non-fiction, three sports novels, seven kids' books, and many legal thrillers. His work has been translated into 45 languages. He lives near Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks (4 July 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1444729764
- ISBN-13 : 978-1444729764
- Item Weight : 275 g
- Dimensions : 13 x 2.5 x 19.7 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #98,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,977 in Thrillers and Suspense
- #2,950 in Crime Fiction (Books)
- #8,744 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
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About the author
John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Boys From Biloxi, The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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An excellent read.
On the downside, none of the characters are memorable, the protagonist doesn't evoke any emotions. The back story could have been explored further. Although has some twists but some of the stuff was very predictable.
Overall for this price, it's worth the buy.
A good Novel which you would like to read in a sitting.
A good movie script
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This novel moves quickly, a real page turner. Centred on a man with a plot to avenge an unjust sentence for a crime he didn't knowingly commit, there are a few twists in the tale on his way to vindication.
I think most readers will see the twists, or at least their outline before they come, but the story rivets nonetheless, and I had loose ends right to the end.
Not sure how likely the events would be - even Grisham comments on this in the author's notes - but I certainly enjoyed the book from cover to cover.
Five years into his sentence, he has become the librarian and “jailhouse lawyer” of the prison, filing motions on behalf of his fellow inmates and, on occasion, seeing injustices in their convictions reversed. He has lost everything else: his wife has divorced him and remarried, and his law license has been revoked; he has little hope of resuming his career after release.
A jailhouse lawyer hears many things from his “clients”: some boastful, others bogus, but some revealing secrets which those holding them think might help to get them out. When a federal judge is murdered, Bannister knows, from his contacts in prison, precisely who committed the crime and leverages his position to obtain his own release, disappearance into witness protection, and immunity from prosecution for earlier acts. The FBI, under pressure to solve the case and with no other leads, is persuaded by what Bannister has to offer and takes him up on the deal.
A jailhouse lawyer, wrongly convicted on a bogus charge by a despotic regime has a great deal of time to ponder how he has been wronged, identify those responsible, and slowly and surely draw his plans against them.
This is one of the best revenge novels I've read, and it's particularly appropriate since it takes down the tyrannical regime which incarcerates a larger percentage of its population than any serious country and shows how a clever individual can always outwit the bumbling collectivist leviathan as long as he refuses to engage it on level terrain but always exploits agility against the saurian brain reaction time of the state.
The only goof I noticed is that on a flight from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, passengers are required to go through passport control. As this is a domestic flight from a U.S. territory to the U.S. mainland, no passport check should be required.
I wouldn't call this a libertarian novel, as the author accepts the coercive structure of the state as a given, but it's a delightful tale of somebody who has been wronged by that foul criminal enterprise obtaining pay-back by wit and guile.