The Partner By John Grisham
As the book opens, a group of private investigators in Brazil kidnaps an American named Patrick Lanigan, a former Biloxi, Miss., lawyer who stole $90 million from his firm, and avoided capture for more than four years. Patrick changed his looks and didn’t live that opulent life style of a millionaire as they thought he would be.
By the time the F.B.I found out that private investigator had caught Patrick, he was half-dead, there was no mercy on him. Patrick’s body had burns all over where they tortured him. After the F.B.I frightened Jack to put in jail if he won’t bring him Patrick in whole peace tortures stopped and Patrick was moved from Brazil to a hospital in America ...
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a new car, and lived with her lover Lance. They were so scared that now their new life in jeopardy that they began to plane Patrick’s murder. Patrick's greedy law partners, still practicing though officially bankrupt because of his theft, are ecstatic because they may yet retrieve a good part of the $90 million he stole.
People didn’t waist their time and while Patrick was recovering he managed to get himself indicted for capital murder, sued for divorce, stolen money, plus punitive damages, sued for thirty million by his old law firm buddies, sued by Insurance company, plus another ten million in punitive for good measure.
Patrick opened up to his lawyer and law school friend Sandy McDermott and to another old friend, Karl Huskey, now a judge. He also made a new friend one of his nurses to whom he paid for taking pictures of his burst body.
Patrick had an associate: Eva Miranda, a lawyer in Rio who's been moving Patrick's $90 million through an international ...
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the story we learn that such issues exists not just among crooks, but also among simple people who see money as the way of changing their lives. These people are willing to take drastic actions in order to achieve their goal.
At the beginning of the book the author shows seemingly bad characters the partners of the law firm where Patrick used to work. These people were able to get their hands on the big settlement and as a result were behaving very unethically by showing their superiority to other lawyers and people in the city. On the other hand, we see Patrick who also was a partner in the firm, but was caught out of the deal. He is shown as a moral man, who also hates behavior ...
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