The Racketeer

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'Electrifying' Guardian

Everyone has their price.

A judge has been brutally murdered.

His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just two dead bodies - the judge and his secretary - and one state-of-the-art safe, opened and emptied.

Ex-attorney Malcolm Bannister knows who killed the judge - and why. The FBI need to know his secrets. And Bannister is ready to talk. But there's a catch: he is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence.

Bannister knows that everything has a price - and this racketeer wasn't born yesterday.

Reviews for THE RACKETEER

'Exhilarating . . . surprising . . . ingenious' New York Times

'Grisham controls the unfolding of his narrative with the skill born of his long experience as a thriller writer' Sunday Times

'Maps out a revenge plot . . . that's twice as elaborate as the one Alexandre Dumas cooked up in The Count of Monte Cristo' Entertainment Weekly

350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films:

JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER

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Electrifying * Guardian *
The best thriller writer alive
No one does it better than Grisham * Daily Telegraph *
Exhilarating . . . surprising . . . ingenious * New York Times *
The Racketeer is guilty of only one thing: keeping us engaged until the very last page * USA Today *
Fast-paced . . . with enough startling plot twists - and changes of scenery, from Miami to Montego Bay and beyond - to surprise even the most suspicious reader * Wall Street Journal *
Tautly plotted * Entertainment Weekly *
A satisfying, deeply engrossing thriller in which different forms of justice are ultimately served * Washington Post *

Author Bio

Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill.

His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.

He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.