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The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel written by John Grisham that was released on October 23, 2012 by Doubleday with an initial printing of 1.5 million copies. [1] It was one of the best selling books of 2012 and spent several weeks atop various best seller lists.
"The Racketeer" is the best Grisham and one of the best crime/thrillers I have ever read. Written in an easy-to-read, straight-forward style, the plot mixes brilliant complexity and multiple surprises in a high-tension manner that doesn't end until the last page.
Based on the premise of the wrongful conviction of Malcolm Bannister – a young and inexperienced lawyer – sacrificed for a hidden agenda that slowly becomes apparent as you navigate the many twists and turns of his indictment, “The Racketeer” is one of the best John Grisham novels I’ve read to date.
The Racketeer is John Grisham’s 30th book. It debuted at the top of the New York Times bestseller list in November 2012. John Grisham has twice won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and also received the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
In the history of the United States, only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five, and only one man knows who did it and why. Find out what he knows in The Racketeer by John Grisham
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • “The Racketeer is guilty of only one thing: keeping us engaged until the very last page.”—USA Today •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 remote lakeside cabin.
John Grisham returns to legal storytelling with “The Racketeer,” about Malcolm Bannister, an ex-lawyer in prison with information about the murder of a federal judge.