When the same Ken follet, with that modesty that magnifies the myth, is able to say that John Grisham He is the best living thriller author, it is necessarily because the good John Grisham always offers plots that border on excellence in their construction, in their tempo, and in that argument always capable of keeping the reader in suspense.
On this occasion, the master of the judicial thriller is introduced to the very essence of the institutionalization of justice, of its idealized definition of equality, notions that therefore motivate many young people thrown into the exercise of law or the judiciary.
Because from there, from the imprint of young practitioners of the legal world lies one of the most fascinating contrasts between the vocational, the will to use justice as a tool towards equality or compensation and the stark reality of interests, legal interpretation not entirely free from subjective impressions or mayeutic arguments of the lawyer on duty, or even corruption.
And if we also add to all this the most rabid Spanish news, with university corruption in certain educational centers, we end up entering an attractive story that has the protagonists, some young law students named Mark, Todd and Zola, at the crossroads of their lives.
Young people who have left their money and that of their families in a legal training that only makes a profit with their money without giving them any official qualification.
Of course, the boys will immediately start fighting to bring the case to light. Only that the matter ends up taking root with unimaginably high spheres of corruption and their fight will appear as an impossible horizon in whose path they can put many things in danger, even their lives ...
From this approach that could even be considered common, we are faced with great current dilemmas while we are introduced into that incomparable framework of suspense typical of Grisham, where the anguish of helplessness and the feeling of defeat in the face of a system plagued by corruption it can only lead to a narrative catharsis in which you can never imagine that final twist that transforms everything, with the usual brilliance of the genius Grisham and that strange grin between the final satisfaction and the gloomy idea that in our reality the good ones don't always win. .
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