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martyfried 's review for:
The Racketeer
by John Grisham
I thought this was a bit of a departure for John Grisham, mainly in that it was a bit more fanciful and entertaining than his more serious courtroom dramas. I liked it, and enjoyed the audiobook narration.
It was like a chess match where you don't see the moves until the game is well underway. It's a bit slow-moving, but even though I often get bored, I enjoyed this one. There was a lot of interesting legal aspects and social commentary to think about that wasn't really directly related to the story, which I guess is somewhat par for the course with John Grisham. But I think it's good to see a bit about what goes on behind the scenes. There are criminals who are not really bad people, and are sometimes not even guilty, and often got caught up in lives that didn't give them a lot of options.
Then there are the rich lawyers and judges who had all the options but still get greedy and want more. They often are worse than the criminals; at least a lot of the criminals are honest about their dishonesty.
I got a little confused in the middle of the book, when a character was introduced that seemed like someone I should know about, but was not mentioned anywhere earlier. But it was all explained later. Be prepared to be led astray.
This reminded me a bit of the Eddie Flynn books by Steve Cavanagh in the way the whole story is a long con, something Eddie Flynn is good at.
It was like a chess match where you don't see the moves until the game is well underway. It's a bit slow-moving, but even though I often get bored, I enjoyed this one. There was a lot of interesting legal aspects and social commentary to think about that wasn't really directly related to the story, which I guess is somewhat par for the course with John Grisham. But I think it's good to see a bit about what goes on behind the scenes. There are criminals who are not really bad people, and are sometimes not even guilty, and often got caught up in lives that didn't give them a lot of options.
Then there are the rich lawyers and judges who had all the options but still get greedy and want more. They often are worse than the criminals; at least a lot of the criminals are honest about their dishonesty.
I got a little confused in the middle of the book, when a character was introduced that seemed like someone I should know about, but was not mentioned anywhere earlier. But it was all explained later. Be prepared to be led astray.
This reminded me a bit of the Eddie Flynn books by Steve Cavanagh in the way the whole story is a long con, something Eddie Flynn is good at.