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hazim_ahmed_a 's review for:
The Racketeer
by John Grisham
"Beautiful, brilliant, I love it! We gotta hire this guy because he's a lot smarter than we are. Talk about a set of balls. He gets his dear friend indicted for the capital murder of a federal judge and he knows the entire time he can get it unraveled and walk him out. Are you kidding me? We look like a bunch of fools."
Precisely what ran through mind when I got through the first half of this book. What makes it even more hilarious is the fact that it is uttered by the Director of the FBI.
Malcolm Bannister is sentenced 10 years in jail against some bogus charges that he cannot defend against because he's a crappy lawyer. But we are expected to believe that the same douchebag is able to come up with some crackpot scheme to get himself and a random jailmate out of prison by outsmarting the FBI who are even bigger idiots than the protagonist.
Besides the dumbed down FBI, the book is filled with a TON of monologue.
The only good portion is the interrogation sequence and Grisham messes that up as well by dragging it for too long. Reading the book is like trying to riding a bicycle along a steep hill where you are struggle to reach the top.
What's worse, the view from up there ain't too good.
Precisely what ran through mind when I got through the first half of this book. What makes it even more hilarious is the fact that it is uttered by the Director of the FBI.
Malcolm Bannister is sentenced 10 years in jail against some bogus charges that he cannot defend against because he's a crappy lawyer. But we are expected to believe that the same douchebag is able to come up with some crackpot scheme to get himself and a random jailmate out of prison by outsmarting the FBI who are even bigger idiots than the protagonist.
Besides the dumbed down FBI, the book is filled with a TON of monologue.
The only good portion is the interrogation sequence and Grisham messes that up as well by dragging it for too long. Reading the book is like trying to riding a bicycle along a steep hill where you are struggle to reach the top.
What's worse, the view from up there ain't too good.