Presumably when John Grisham began to practice law, the last thing he thought was to transfer to fiction so many and so many cases in which He would have to struggle to make a name for himself among the robes of the United States. However, to this day the legal profession will be for him a vague memory of what he was or what he wanted to be.
In any case, having always been able to get better in a more creative space where to raise cases and more cases in that criminal field in which criminals in impeccable suits move and millions to spend in court as if it were Las Vegas.
The world of legal or judicial thriller, highly sought after among readers around the world, has in Grisham its great reference, the mirror in which others look longingly. And it is so because, in addition to being one of the first to specialize in this type of narrative, so friendly to cinema on the other hand, it has always done so with round plots that show us the sewers of a corrupt world from which it is neither free nor the judicial estate.
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the 3 essential novels by John Grisham
The client
The introduction of the figure of a child as the keeper of a great judicial secret introduces us to the most sensitive aspects of justice. However, the harshness of those who defend spurious interests has no limits. Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the peculiar suicide of a New Orleans lawyer.
Moments before he dies, the lawyer reveals to him a terrible secret related to the recent murder of a senator from Louisiana, whose alleged murderer, a mob thug, is about to be tried.
The police, the federal prosecutor and the FBI pressure Mark to reveal the lawyer's last words, but he, aware that the mafia is watching his every move, knows that his life would almost certainly be at stake. So Mark opts to hire a lawyer named Reggie Love.
When the boy receives a death threat and Reggie discovers that they have hidden microphones in his office, and even the judge of the Juvenile Court says that Mark has no alternative but to speak, he understands that this time he has gotten into a real aubergine. However, Mark comes up with a plan… a far-fetched plan in Reggie's opinion, but one that is his only hope.
The cover
As you can see, John Grisham is an author of concise titles. He prefers to introduce us to flour as soon as he begins to read. The world of law and law firms as an intricate world where puzzling surprises await us ...
When Mitch McDeere was in the top five of his class at Harvard Law School, offers from top law firms started pouring in from every corner of America. The one he chose was not the most famous but highly respected, and they were willing to more than satisfy the wishes of Mitch and his wife: a salary that seemed to multiply, a BMW and a house that they never would have expected to own.
However, some unexpected terms were also included in the deal: untouchable files, hidden microphones, the mysterious death of some colleagues and the evasion of several million dollars. The FBI would do anything to uncover this crime and fraud circuit. And the partners of the firm as well, but for keeping their secrets and those of their clients safe. For Mitch, landing his dream job can be his worst nightmare.
the adversaries
Put to enjoy a volume of short novels, nothing better than an assortment of Grisham with which to go around all kinds of frameworks on the edge of the law, among the most unsuspected family nooks or from spaces of power connected to the underworld. white. Justice is not always so blind to the most powerful interests; dialectic of lawyers capable of deceiving the most inaccessible jury; poisoned cases that end up exploding with their turn only at the height of the most epic Grisham...
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the setting for many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. This time Jake Brigance is not in court; who comes to him is an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer from Clanton. Three years earlier, Mack became a local legend when he stole his clients' money, divorced his wife, declared bankruptcy, and walked out on his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. … until now. Mack is back and relies on his old colleagues for help. But his return doesn't turn out as he had planned.
In "Strawberry Moon," Cody Wallace, a young inmate, finds himself on death row just three hours from his execution. His lawyers cannot save him, the court has closed its doors and the governor has refused a last request for clemency. As the clock ticks down, Cody has one last request.
"The Adversaries" stars the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two ambitious and successful lawyers who inherited a thriving law firm when the founder, their father, was sent to prison for the murder of his wife. Kirk and Rusty hate each other and only speak when absolutely necessary, and the firm is in full decline and on the verge of disintegrating. And now that his father may be out of prison sooner than expected... a showdown between the Malloys seems inevitable.
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Exchange
The cover was a before and after in the world of suspense in literature and cinema. Above all because with him the disturbing world of lawyers, judges, hearings and a justice that is not always so blind, served the cause of one of the most complex but magnetic, elegant but dark and always audacious arguments. So knowing about Mitch's life and work so many years later cannot arouse less curiosity.
Fifteen years ago, Mitch McDeere dodged death. And to the mafia. After taking ten million dollars and disappearing, he saw how his enemies ended up in jail or the grave. Now Mitch and his wife, Abby, live in Manhattan, where he has worked his way up to partner at the world's largest law firm.
But when his mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him to Istanbul and Tripoli, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot with ramifications all over the planet and that will once again endanger his colleagues, friends and family. . Mitch has become an expert at staying one step ahead of his opponents, but now that time is running out, will he be able to do it again? This time, there is nowhere to hide.
The Biloxi Boys
In addition to being a master of the judicial thriller, Grisham is a benchmark for a southern thriller built under that unique setting of that part of the United States that at times seems to be governed by its own rules. This time it's up to little Biloxi, a city of around 50.000 inhabitants where the mafia is capable of handcuffing the government and frightening justice...
For nearly a century, Biloxi has been known for its beaches, resorts, and fishing industry. But it also has a dark side. This Mississippi city is also notorious for crime and corruption: from gambling, prostitution and smuggling to drug trafficking and murder by hit men. A small group controls criminal activity and many of them are rumored to be members of the southern mob, known as the Dixie Mafia.
Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco, childhood friends and sons of immigrant families, grew up in Biloxi during the XNUMXs, until their lives took different directions in their teens. Keith's father became a legendary prosecutor determined to "sweep the town." Hugh's became the head of the Biloxi underground crime ring. Keith decided to study law and follow in his father's footsteps. Hugh preferred to work in the nightclubs of his. The two families are headed straight for a decisive confrontation, which will take place in court... and in which everyone's lives will be on the line.
forgiveness time
The state of Mississippi shelters that sort of black legend of the civilized United States. AND John Grisham He has it in his sights to peer into the deepest contradictions between the supposed liberal morality of the West and the still reactionary strongholds such as this southern state of peculiar idiosyncrasy and strange miscegenation.
To revisit Clanton (not the real and next town of Alabama but the one replicated by this author) is to inhabit a space loaded with stridency in conflicting moral patterns that in the time of the novel, the nineties, were still more potent.
But as in other fictionalized occasions in Clanton or in any Grisham setting, the matter ends up becoming a magisterial class in the judicial field, even in its ethical part. And so the matter points to sociological significance, to the analysis of the limits of the legal, the moral and the controversy over when the most natural right is above all law.
Deputy Sheriff Stuart Kofer considers himself untouchable. Although, when he drinks too much, which is quite common, he takes out her rages on her girlfriend, Josie, and her teenage children, the police code of silence has always protected him. But one night, after beating Josie unconscious on the floor, her son Drew knows he only has one choice to save her family. He picks up a gun and decides to take justice into his own hands.
In Clanton, there's nothing more hateful than a cop killer... except maybe his lawyer. Jake Brigance doesn't want to take on this impossible case, but he's the only one experienced enough to defend the boy. And when the trial begins, it seems there's only one outcome on the horizon for Drew: the gas chamber. But as the town of Clanton discovers once again, when Jake Brigance takes on an impossible case...anything is possible.
souly's dream
The other hunger, the one that is not only born from the stomach but from the firm determination to survive. Because once the abysses of existence to the limit or of life in its wild nature (something almost forgotten in Western civilization) are known, only then can one face the impossible with the hope unscathed in the face of the most daunting setbacks.
Samuel Sooleymon is a teenager from South Sudan with a great love for basketball, prodigious jumping and lightning speed. An exhibition tournament for the United States may turn out to be his big break, but his natural conditions need work and Sooley soon realizes he has a long way to go.
However, he has something that none of his peers have: a fierce determination to succeed and thus help his family escape the war that is ravaging their country. And for this he will need to do what no other player has achieved: become a legend in just twelve months.
The manuscript
At the beginning of this novel one remembers Dolores Redondo, Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans ... Because Grisham has also been carried away by that double corkscrew of the catastrophic on a climatic and criminal level. Nothing better than a world devastated by nature for the human factor to arrive to make it worse ...
When Hurricane Leo deviates from its planned course to head towards Camino Island, off the coast of Florida, most of its inhabitants decide to leave the island. Only a small group of the irreducible choose to stay, including Bruce Cable, the owner of the Bay Books bookstore. The hurricane advances destroying everything and leaving collapsed houses, destroyed hotels and shops, flooded streets and a dozen dead. One of the deceased is Nelson Kerr, Bruce's friend and author of thriller. But evidence suggests that the storm was not the cause of Nelson's death: the victim received numerous suspicious blows to the head.
Who would want to kill Nelson? The local police are overwhelmed by the effects of the hurricane and are not in a position to deal with the case. But Bruce begins to wonder if some dark characters in his friend's novels could be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Is there, in black on white, the key to the case? Bruce begins to investigate and what he discovers between its pages is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists ... and far more dangerous.
La herencia
The issue of inheritances is a sensitive issue in civil matters. Sometimes the heirs end up entangled in a thousand disputes and in a few cases the civil administration of assets ends up in criminal matters. Money as an element capable of destabilizing even families ...
In a small town in Mississippi, one Sunday in October 1988, the body of Seth Hubbard, a wealthy homeowner, was found hanging from a tree. In his house he has left a suicide note, where he tells that he has decided to end the suffering caused by the lung cancer he suffered.
Racism continues to be a palpable element in this town. Jake Brigance, a white attorney, is one of the few without racial prejudice. On Monday morning, Jake receives an envelope with Hubbard's new testament, which revokes the old one, and with which the deceased disinherits his two ex-wives and his children.
Ninety percent of his property will be inherited by Letitia Lang, a black woman whom Hubbard hired to do housework three years ago, and who later became his caretaker. The controversy that the content of the new testament will arouse will turn the inevitable legal claim into a real circus where the family will resort to all kinds of arguments to challenge the last will of the deceased.
judge's list
The older Grisham Black he can become the most disturbing of suspense narrators in any of its aspects, from his well-known judicial thriller to the criminal genre. A compendium that he explores in this novel with more or less successful moments but always maintaining tension. As always the twists and the feeling of living on the tightrope of his characters...
Lacy Stoltz has encountered numerous corruption issues in her work as an investigator for the Florida Commission on Judicial Conduct. But nothing has prepared her for the case that a frightened but determined stranger wants to put in her hands.
Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years ago. His death remains unsolved, but Jeri has a suspect she's been obsessively tracking for two decades. Along the way, she has discovered other victims.
His suspicions are firm but the evidence seems impossible to obtain. The culprit is smart, patient and always one step ahead of the police. He is the most brilliant of serial killers. He knows the procedures, the investigative work and, above all… he knows the law.
This is a Florida judge from the jurisdiction of Lacy. And he has a list with the names of all his targets, innocent people who have been unlucky enough to cross his path and offend him in some way. Will Lacy be able to stop him without becoming his next victim?
I have read La Applacion. I found it tedious and without much formalities ... Without a predictable ending ... Without a happy ending. I would give it a 5.
Then, I read the Her, walk ”that yes seemed to me full of plot. Good outcome. I'd give it a 9.
I also read, "the litigants" and flat .... Terrible ... It has no content of any interest to anyone.
I have also read, "The Bribery", and thought that it is handling an interesting plot ... An expected ending, not predictable. Well. I'd give that a 9.