The Racketeer

 by John Grisham

John Grisham's The Firm brought me back to reading when I was in University.
I remember traveling an hour on a bus each way, off on Teaching Practice. I wasn't sleeping well because I couldn't get the whole experience out of my head. Learning groups, IEPs, planning, resource making, observations and so on swam around and around my head. I needed to do something about that. It was two-hours a day, every day, for 6 weeks. That's a lot of time that I could fill with reading.

Since then I've always kept pace with Grisham novels...until a few years ago. When I got the Racketeer out I scanned down the list of his books at the front. It seems I've got some catching up to do.

I enjoyed The Racketeer. It felt a little like The Partner lite. The Partner is by far my favourite Grisham novel. There just seemed to lack a bit of meat to the story. One I got to the end I read that Grisham did very little research, the story is clearly a work of fiction but it seemed that it had little basis in real case law. Perhaps there was a depth, a meatiness, that comes through a Grisham novel when the laws a accurate, the events are a little better researched.

Synopsis

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... Read More

Author

John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.  - Wikipedia

Here is the full list of Other books by the author but below is a short list of books I consider that are among his best.

• The Firm
• The Pelican Brief 
• The Client 
• The Runaway Jury
•  The Partner
• The Street Lawyer 
• A Painted House
•  Skipping Christmas 
• The Associate 
• The Litigators

Which are your favourite John Grisham novels?