The Partner - John Grisham > Reviews

Advantages: ood story, good writer
Disadvantages: Stop reading again is very hard

...Stephen King/ Richard Bachman and the german author Wolfgang Hohlbein one of my favorite authors. I like his books about szenes from the live of lawyer. In "The Partner" Grisham descibes the story off a lawyer who had fooled his partners for a very huge amount of money. He vanished with $90.000.000 - ninety million dollars. He simulated his own dead in an accident and then robbed the money. After a long hide and seek he settled down in a small ... Read review

Advantages: the description of the feelings
Disadvantages: the unlogical story

This is the slogan of the John Grisham’s 1997 novel “the Partner” in the Arrow edition. And what does it hide behind this phrase? Well, I can answer this question with another question like the people living in Galicia: Do you have enough brave to leave your parents and friends and to start a new life with new name by simulating your death? That is what Patrick S. Lanigan, an ex-partner in a law- firm in Biloxi, had done in February ... Read review

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The Partner by John Grisham is another in a long line of novels the flow effortlessly through a tale of legal wrangling. Grisham was getting a reputation of writing novels the featured a young successful law student taking on corporate America and winning handsomely. Later books have shied away from this formula. The Partner features a forty something partner in a successful law firm who embezzles millions in legal fees and then disappears to Brazil. ... Read review

Advantages: Good Read
Disadvantages: None

The Partner by John Grisham This is the story about Patrick Lanigan. He is a young partner in a Southern law firm with a bright future. February 1992 Patrick disappears, a body is found in his car burnt to cinders. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from his law firm. Patrick is found in Ponta Pora, a town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay. He now has a mysterious girlfriend from Brazil. How did Patrick manage to steal ... Read review

Advantages: Very good plot and true to life
Disadvantages: did get a bit violent

The partner is one of John Grishams best work to date. First lets look at the plot, there is a law firm with a set of partners but one of them is treated as an outsider and the other partners want him out because they have a plan. They were commiting fraud by suing the US government. Anyway they were set to get a lot of money from this but what they didn't know was that the outcast lawyer caught on to the plan and what he did was to stole all the ... Read review

Advantages: I couldn't put it down (or is that a disadvantage?!)
Disadvantages: None! Well, a personal disadvantage is that i'd have liked to be more intune with the whole lawyer business, but that didn't really affect the read!

...daughter (myself) are all reading the same novel on holiday! I am relatively new to Grisham but i seem to have found my perfect author. The people i know who have read and enjoyed The Partner couldn't have been more different, indicating that this book is for anyone. I understood it, although i should imagine it is a book for 16+years to whenever. It is a book which gets you involved so much in the plot, and a plot is exactly what the book is about. ... Read review

Advantages: Deception At Its Best
Disadvantages: Confusing At Times

...He was assumed dead but the disappearance of $90 million makes everyone think otherwise, can he really get away with this? Despite many efforts no-one has been able to find the money or the man responsible, but no-one can disappear forever can they? A clever plot unfolds as an anonamous person is tipping off the people on his trail, they are getting closer to him and they know it, but every avenue dead ends. Until now...finally they have found ... Read review

Advantages: Just a great read
Disadvantages: none

...He decides to disappear off the face of the earth but as he does he finds the law firm that he is a partner to, is about to receive $90 million of which the firm will get $30 and he is to be fired. He disappears by faking his death but then the money also disappears. The hunt then starts for him and the money and quickly into he book he is caught, this is when all the twists and turns begin in earnest as he tries to get out of all the charges brought ... Read review

Advantages: Great Storyline, eccellently thought through
Disadvantages: Might be a touch slow for some peoples tastes

...how I would sum up The Partner. The story involves a Partner of a firm realising he is on his way outwhether he likes it or not. Before he gets the push he fakes his own death and steals a huge sum from the Partnership account. The book opens in Brazil when the main charcter's (Patrick) past is about to catch up with him. He is caputred and tortured by people working on behalf of the Partnership who are trying to recover the money. Patrick has ... Read review

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John Grisham likes to pit the little guy against the system, and the mega-selling American author does it again in his satisfying new novel. A Mississippi law partner called Patrick Lanigan had disappeared from his firm four years earlier after staging a phony death and decamping with $90 million from the firm's offshore account. As the story opens, a group of men has caught up with Patrick in a small Brazilian town. Under torture, he reveals that ... Read review

Advantages: unique storyline
Disadvantages: slow, methodical and rather dull

...despise, I was struck by the difference of this book in relation to his previous novels. For a start, he seems to struggle with the idea that for a change his main character is not an inherently good young rookie lawyer trying to save the world. He focuses on Patrick Lanigan who has stolen from an (albeit dodgy) law firm in Alabama and run to South America. Without giving the story away completely, the story has a rather lame and, I felt predictable ... Read review

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...and nothing is suspected for the moment. But 4 years later he is found in Brasil by some hitman. These men, looking for the money, torture him in the worst possible ways. After his extradition he thus files a case against the FBI. He himself is taken to court for murder, misappropriation and divorce. The book contains many surprises for the reader and Grisham above all questions the American judicial system. The “dead” guy is a lawyer himself ... Read review