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发表于2024-09-10
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Book Description
They hired him. They trusted him. Now they don't want justice--they want revenge....
For four years, Patrick had often wondered how it would feel if they caught him.
Now he was terror-stricken. Practically naked and strapped down like an animal, he knew the next few hours would be insufferable....
Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm--and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich, powerful, and would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down.
Now Patrick is coming home. And in the Mississippi city where it all began, an extraordinary trial is about to begin. As prosecutors circle like sharks, as Patrick's lawyer prepares his defense, as Patrick's lover prays for his deliverance and his former partners wait for their revenge, another story is about to emerge. Because Patrick Lanigan, the most reviled white-collar criminal of his time, knows something that no one else in the world knows.
He knows the truth....
Amazon.com
Literary slugger John Grisham returns with a story about-- surprise!--a lawyer in trouble. Patrick Lanigan had been a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. He had a beautiful wife, a new baby girl, and a bright future. Then one winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car; the casket they buried held nothing but ashes.
A short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial then fled. A fortune was stolen from his ex-firm's offshore account. And Patrick ran, covering his tracks the whole way.
But, now, they've found him.
From Kirkus Reviews
Grisham (The Client, 1993, etc.) justifies a colossal first printing of 2.8 million copies with his best-plotted novel yet, gripping the reader mightily and not letting go. Nor is there the dispersal of belief that often follows his knockout openings. Patrick Lanigan is tracked down to his hideout in Brazil, where he lives modestly near the Paraguayan border. Surely, Jack Stephano thinks, Patrick could not have spent the $90 million he ran off with four years ago. Jack has spent $3 million tracking Patrick down, and he wants that money. He wants it so much that he's blithely torturing Patrick to discover its location. The problem is that Patrick doesn't really know. He's given power of attorney to his lover, the brilliant Brazilian lawyer Eva Miranda, and she has been shuttling the money from bank to bank around the world, keeping it untraceable. When Patrick fails to call her at four in the afternoon, per usual, she skips out, as they've planned, and goes into hiding. And as planned, she phones the FBI office in Biloxi, Mississippi, and tells them that one Jack Stephano has very likely captured Patrick and is holding him in Brazil. The FBI puts pressure on Stephano to bring Patrick back to Biloxi, where the embezzlement took place and where Patrick's cremated remains were buried after his car went over an embankment. Patrick even attended his own funeral, watching through binoculars. As it turns out, the $90 million he ran off with was dirty money his law firm had helped collect in a criminal conspiracy to rob the government. Will the money be returned? Will Patrick escape trial for the murder of whoever it was that died in that accident? And what of Eva, now hiding in the States and helping Patrick orchestrate his defense? Grisham comes up with a masterfully bittersweet end (with his title taking on a sly double edge) that may be his most satisfying ever. (First printing of 2,800,000; Literary Guild main selection)
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.3 width:(cm)10.1
Could be a 5-star one if without the unreasonable end..........
评分引人入胜的悬疑小说
评分结局太坑。我猜女主会回来的
评分The twist in the ending doesn't serve any purpose. But still the best John Grisham novel I've read so far.
评分一开篇就写到男主角Patrick东躲西藏的日子过得多么不舒坦,稍后又被客户派去的人逮到施以电刑是多么惨,Grisham一如既往生动的文字和高节奏的情节展开-------但读到一半作者还是没有迹象要解释Patrick当初为什么拐了公司和客户的四百万溜之大吉,令人没了读下去的欲望
<The partner> is a fascinating story full of adventurous scenarios, though ends a little bit bittersweet. It describes a saga of a man named Patrick Lanigan (also known as Danilo Silva). Once was a well-paid new partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm, P...
评分A story about lawyers and American legal system; no good guy: lawyers, FBI, state police, senators, reporter, all greedy and no moral. The story itself is not bad, a run-away who stealed too much is hunted down by cruel private agents. The first part is mo...
评分<The partner> is a fascinating story full of adventurous scenarios, though ends a little bit bittersweet. It describes a saga of a man named Patrick Lanigan (also known as Danilo Silva). Once was a well-paid new partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm, P...
评分<The partner> is a fascinating story full of adventurous scenarios, though ends a little bit bittersweet. It describes a saga of a man named Patrick Lanigan (also known as Danilo Silva). Once was a well-paid new partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm, P...
评分<The partner> is a fascinating story full of adventurous scenarios, though ends a little bit bittersweet. It describes a saga of a man named Patrick Lanigan (also known as Danilo Silva). Once was a well-paid new partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm, P...
The Partner pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024