The racketeer

a novel

382 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-345-53057-8
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OCLC Number:
848162981

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In the history of the United States, only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. His body is found in his lakeside cabin. There is no forced entry or struggle. Just two dead bodies, Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art extremely secure safe, opened and emptied. One man, a former attorney, knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and why. But that man, Malcolm Bannister, is currently residing in the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. Though serving time, Malcolm has an ace up his sleeve. He has information the FBI would love to know. Malcolm would love to tell them. But everything has a price--and the man known as the Racketeer wasn't born yesterday.

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Man, it's hard to put a Grisham novel down, and this is definitely one of those! The present tense voice he's started using is a little odd, and some of the plot stretches credibility, but the novel twists and turns and jumps and is a really gripping read. Grisham has such a great formula: he starts from a lawyer, throws in some scenario you've never thought of, and spins a great yarn. If you like his other stuff, you'll gobble this one, too.

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Subjects

  • Judges
  • Murder
  • Lawyers
  • Prisoners
  • Imprisonment
  • Crimes against
  • Fiction