Once again I forgot to take a picture of the hardcover copy I'd taken out from the library, but this is the same version (thanks for the image, OldScrolls). All I knew about Grisham going in was from seeing a The Client and A Time to Kill back in their theatrical runs, and I suppose that I had an image in my head of an old, retired lawyer digging through his memory for stories. I was close, except that he was a young, retired lawyer.
I'm only going to end up reading a couple of his novels through this project, and maybe even only this one, but wow, was he dominant for the better part of a decade.
The read itself was easy enough and full of forward movement, and a little bit like a sneak peak at the Dan Brown master-class in page-turning momentum. Grisham's stuff, though I suppose I'm presuming that all of his books are similar to this one, reads like a movie adaptation, so it makes all the sense in the world that they were so transferrable to the screen.
He also found a more easily-digestible form of Tom Clancy's super-informed style of detailed exposition; you can tell that Grisham knows what he's talking about, but you also get the feeling that he's holding back so as not to the lose the audience's attention. I don't know if that makes him a better writer, but it certainly paved the way for crafting multiple best-sellers.
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