Hardcover, 368 pages
Published Oct. 17, 2023 by Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
This was an amazing followup to The Firm. I was on the edge of my seat and read it way too fast!
This can hardly be called a follow-up to The Firm. It has hardly anything to do with that book. And Mitch McDeere is arguably Grisham's most unlikeable protagonist. Was anyone really asking for more of him?
He's marginally nicer this time around but lacks any depth. Zero character development. Zero appeal.
There is also no story arc. None. It's incredible, actually.
There is no suspense. No threat. At no point is he or his family in peril. Instead, he's trying to save a woman he barely knows after she gets kidnapped in Libya by terrorists. Then it's just Mitch taking private planes all over the world trying to raise $100M for her ransom. Nothing much else happens.
60% of the book is: "Did [insert company/govt] agree to contribute to the ransom fund?" "We're still waiting." "Okay, I'll check back tomorrow."
A better title would've been The Fundraiser.
It's …
This can hardly be called a follow-up to The Firm. It has hardly anything to do with that book. And Mitch McDeere is arguably Grisham's most unlikeable protagonist. Was anyone really asking for more of him?
He's marginally nicer this time around but lacks any depth. Zero character development. Zero appeal.
There is also no story arc. None. It's incredible, actually.
There is no suspense. No threat. At no point is he or his family in peril. Instead, he's trying to save a woman he barely knows after she gets kidnapped in Libya by terrorists. Then it's just Mitch taking private planes all over the world trying to raise $100M for her ransom. Nothing much else happens.
60% of the book is: "Did [insert company/govt] agree to contribute to the ransom fund?" "We're still waiting." "Okay, I'll check back tomorrow."
A better title would've been The Fundraiser.
It's also ridiculously unbelievable, even for Grisham.
Grisham's worst book by far.
