Linda Meise

Don't waste your money on this book! I love John Grisham's books. He has had a very successful career crafting inventive plots & twists, however this is NOT one of them. This book reads as if Grisham was forced by his publisher to produce one last story and complied by doing the absolute minimum amount of work to avoid a law suit. Either that, or they are auditioning ghost writers...in which case this writer clearly does not make the cut. The story begins with an interesting true fact about a bridge-to-nowhere in the desert, followed by a kidnapping of a minor character that we, the reader, don't really care about. The following 7/8 of the book is consumed with unconvincing handwringing over raising an unattainable amount of ransom. Unimaginative. Endlessly repetitive. Waste of time. This could have been a much better story if, for example, it was revealed at the very end that mob members from The Firm, now out of prison, engineered the kidnapping & ransom as retribution against Mitch McDeere for their demise.