Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered.
Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.
Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland.
On paper, Malcolm’s situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied.
What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price—especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. And the Racketeer wasn’t born yesterday . . .
Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.
發表於2024-06-30
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不由自主地和Patricia Highsmith的Mr. Ripely 做比較。那本書裏作者告訴讀者所有的背景,讀者在閱讀過程中和主人公一起思考對策。而這本書裏作者對讀者隱藏瞭很多信息,隨著內容的進展慢慢告訴讀者,說俗瞭就是吊讀者胃口。一旦你知道全部信息,換句話說讀完整部小說,一般來說...
評分不由自主地和Patricia Highsmith的Mr. Ripely 做比較。那本書裏作者告訴讀者所有的背景,讀者在閱讀過程中和主人公一起思考對策。而這本書裏作者對讀者隱藏瞭很多信息,隨著內容的進展慢慢告訴讀者,說俗瞭就是吊讀者胃口。一旦你知道全部信息,換句話說讀完整部小說,一般來說...
評分GRISHAM 毫無疑問是Legal Thrillar領域的金童,我看過那些根據他書改編的電影,但沒讀過原著。這次挑一本新作,書背後的推薦吹翻瞭天,就這一本來說,PLOT無聊,Writing本身也毫無亮點, 看的我無數次打瞌睡。到一半瞭SCHEME也沒怎麼開始, 展開也毫不扣人心弦,常看這類作品...
評分不由自主地和Patricia Highsmith的Mr. Ripely 做比較。那本書裏作者告訴讀者所有的背景,讀者在閱讀過程中和主人公一起思考對策。而這本書裏作者對讀者隱藏瞭很多信息,隨著內容的進展慢慢告訴讀者,說俗瞭就是吊讀者胃口。一旦你知道全部信息,換句話說讀完整部小說,一般來說...
評分GRISHAM 毫無疑問是Legal Thrillar領域的金童,我看過那些根據他書改編的電影,但沒讀過原著。這次挑一本新作,書背後的推薦吹翻瞭天,就這一本來說,PLOT無聊,Writing本身也毫無亮點, 看的我無數次打瞌睡。到一半瞭SCHEME也沒怎麼開始, 展開也毫不扣人心弦,常看這類作品...
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這本John Grisham的新作應該是他的legal thriller係列裏寫得最差的一本,我前幾個月去旅行的路上看瞭一大半,前幾天纔勉強把最後早已猜到的結尾草草掃瞭一遍,聯邦法官被謀殺的案子本來可以寫得更精彩更緊張更twisted,但JG的處理手法實在是麵譜化得令人發指,FBI和警方就都是壞人,而且還是弱智型的壞人,而鋃鐺入獄的,因為窮、因為社會不公、因為體製性壓迫(whatever that means)所以都是無辜的,都不用為自己的行為負責,這簡直是把“越窮越光榮”的liberal邏輯推至極緻,而且,看完整本書的讀者可以細心留意一下,書裏所有好的值得同情的都是黑人,然後就剩下瞭一堆又蠢又邪惡的被善良主角們耍得團團轉的白人,還有比這更麵譜更刻意符閤自己的意識形態的無趣故事麽???
評分沒有異常華麗的語言,卻緊扣人心弦,誰是受害者,誰又在操縱人生?
評分跟the firm有點類似,不是很喜歡的風格。
評分虎頭蛇尾咯 開篇還是挺精彩的
評分主角不太討喜…
The Racketeer 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載