jfranco77 's review for:

The Racketeer by John Grisham
4.0

Malcolm Bannister is an inmate at a minimum security prison. Wrongly convicted for being an unwitting patsy in a money laundering scheme, Mal counts down the days of his 10 year sentence.

Then a federal judge is murdered and Mal knows what happened. He gets himself out of jail and into witness protection. After all, there are bad people after him. But he doesn't stay there long before things get crazy.

This book is classic Grisham. Lawyers. Caribbean beaches. Beautiful women. Plot twists galore. It was a fast read but I really enjoyed the way Grisham strung it together. No legal thriller writer makes the Caribbean sound half as amazing as Grisham.