The stamp Grisham it is already much more than its judicial plots. Those legal thrillers in which this American author deals with navigating the deepest legal loopholes, where rights are submerged in favor of evil interests.
Because in novels like this, Adjusting Accounts, the tension hovers from that judicial sphere always present in this writer's bibliography, towards the psychological suspense, until the probing of the human soul when it is driven by circumstances to the worst of its circumstances. versions.
Because Pete Banning is a stereotypical character of XNUMXth century America. The young son of an achiever raised from the foundations of the surviving hero of World War II.
Admired, recognized by most of his neighbors and finally reconverted into the father of a prosperous family in that great country in which a country house, with its farm and its crops, emerged as the American dream, a deep American version in which religion and customs structured all cells of society.
But returning unscathed from the hells of war does not assure control of any other inner battle in a sphere as essential as the familiar. There is always a dark side that can end up occupying the human being.
No one expected Pete, Clanton's good son, to commit murder. The World War had ended a year earlier and the peace was sustained with that point of appearances over the other underlying war, the Cold War.
It is then that the novel acquires a double value. Because Pete's silence after the sinister change of fate extends to the honor of his family, leads us to inquire about his motives.
Hand in hand with the lawyer and Pete's family we move from that country, supposedly full of blessings as the leader of the Allies but that from inside had to quell his own phobias and fears capable of resembling the worst ideologies fought, to the most remote spaces of the Second World War.
Because beyond Normandy, the glorious marches between rubble through European capitals, in places like the Philippines a war was brewing even more crude, if possible, more brutal. Scenario b for an American army in which Clanton also had to perform thoroughly in hand-to-hand battles that littered the islands with American blood rather than Japanese.
And it turns out that Pete, the son of the hero, sets it all up. The consequences of battles overshadowed by the European scene. The spread, despite everything, of the pernicious ideology of xenophobia throughout almost the entire United States.
From the Philippines to the United States. The motives for killing as a strange sequel to Pete, who does not shed any light on his fatal decision to kill. The corresponding judgment and the frenetic pace of the truth that pushes to sit back on the podium to, if possible, overwhelm us all with its clear testimony, as luminous as it is blinding ...
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