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Title: Three parts good but definitely not his best work
Review: This book starts off well and gathers wonderful pace in the middle. I thoroughly enjoyed the the first three quarters of the book, but I felt Grisham lost his way towards the end of this story and didn't really know how to finish what he had started. I think the main problem was that it became increasingly difficult to continue to like the main character as the story developed. I guess this is a reflection of the trade he had chosen to ply - does anyone like a tort lawyer? One knew that as the story went by it looked increasingly likely that Clay was going to be hoisted by his own petard, but I was really looking for a story twist that would bring him out on the right side. I felt let down.This is well short of his earlier quality demonstrated most memorably through A Time To Kill. On reflection I suspect he wrote this book in something of a hurry, he probably had an obligation to his publisher. Sorry John, you can do better.
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