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    The Partner

    Written by John Grisham

    Narrated by Michael Beck

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    About this audiobook

    They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore account. And Patrick fled some more.But they found him.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 4, 2000
    ISBN9780553754384
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    • 3/5
      This is a good read...not a great one. It did keep my interest but the ending was a disappointment.
    • 4/5
      Very nicely read. Grabs you and keeps you right from the start.
    • 4/5
      From the start this was an intriguing story, the way the layers peel back as the pages flow is superb and keeps your attention. Not to mention keeps you guessing as to who's doing what and why. Whilst there's not much in the way of courtroom action there is plenty of legal manoeuvring. The ending however is quite disappointing, after all the character building throughout the novel the character then does something completely out of line with all their qualities they've demonstrated so far and worse, seemingly for no reason.
    • 5/5
      Deviously pleasant.
    • 4/5
      Great! suspenseful!!
    • 1/5
      The music is annoying and distracting. Please stop it, please
    • 4/5
      Partners is a short story prequel to Rogue Lawyer. I wasn’t sure which to read first so I took a chance and read Partners first. It’s an interesting story of a lawyer defending an innocent man. I hope it helps to have the back story of the relationship between Sebastian Rudd, the Rogue Lawyer, and this particular client. I guess I will find out soon! I’m moving onto Rogue Lawyer next!
    • 5/5
      A thoroughly enjoyable story with many twists and turns during the plot keeping the reader on their toes all the time. It certainly kept me interested, and I felt thoroughly engulfed in the story. This featured a new partner, Patrick Lanigan, in a firm of lawyers, who disappeared four years previously, taking with him $90 million and successfully faking his own death. Lots of fun and games of a legal variety which ended fairly predictably although I was hoping for a different conclusion!!
    • 5/5
      Ok, I know... All of Grisham's stuff is alike and pap and not good enough for real readers. That may be true but I like the stuff. I wait until the paperback, but I grab it and read it and like it. The Partner is another good one. Attorney Patrick Lanigan disappeared four years ago with $90 million dollars. Everyone is looking for him and then he's found…
    • 3/5
      First book I read by this author. It was good enough to read another book by the author but not overly exciting.
    • 4/5
      I found this book very enjoyable. Many twists and turns along the way. Familiar themes found in other Grisham novels which are entertaining. If you like Grisham's other novels I believe you will find this entertaining, if this is your first you will enjoy it too.
    • 4/5
      Another good John Grisham read, but not one of my favourites. Holds your attention and moves along at a pace without being exceptional.
    • 2/5
      (Original review, 1997-05-30)This morning on the Tube I saw a Grisham lying around, “The Partner”, and I was tempted to take it, but it was not marked as a bookcrossing book - so I wondered if somebody had only forgotten it or lost it out of his backpack when leaving the tram in a haste. So I left it in there. Of course, somebody might have finished it and let it lie there for somebody else to take it. But since there was no affirmation that it was fine to take it I did not want to commit trover and left it. Shame, it would have been my first Grisham. Yes, I know, he wrote lots and is a bestselling author, which is usually a sign for someone who has found a formula that works, but he is a lawyer and writes about what he knows. I didn’t Laws - not even Portuguese ones. Not that I lack books. I could always finish Cortazar's Winner next. Or Snow Child ... Or that Portuguese single volume Fantasy book. Or ... Or ... Or ...What would you have done?And if some of you let a book lie around in public transport after finishing it - do you mark it as Fine To Take? Or do you just let it lie around?Bear with me, for I have to say it: Cortázar over Grisham any day ;) Do you think you’d probably pick it up? I don't imagine someone would rush back to get it.Got to give Grisham credit for what he does though: some great easy reads, that help you get back on track when you start caring about your corporate employers just a little bit too much. Don't think I've read more than two or three books of his, but nothing particularly cringe-worthy (one star reading, I mean) comes to mind. I never leave books in public transport: I'm a compulsive hoarder, so all of them (finished or not) pile up on my bookshelves. There are, however, quite a few begging to be taken to second hand book stores, those that I can't stand or those that deserve a new life.Maybe as I get older and turn into a waterpot, it’d entitle me to take whatever the hell I want in the world of abandoned books. I don’t speak as a waterpot and my word is not final (*Yeah, finally all those Regency Romances have paid off! ;) That is where my usage of "waterpot" stems from. I knew it would come in handy one day. Next time I will try to fit in the word "fiddlesticks", stolen from "Little Lord Fauntleroy".)NB: I used to participate in our Portuguese equivalent of Bookcrossing, but gave up because it seemed to get very competitive and infested by Romanians shamelessly looking for free books - the original spirit was lost. I would never take, let alone leave, a book on public transport. Maybe after turning into an waterpot things will change...
    • 4/5
      Not the best John Grisham Nobel- pretty predictable ending ok I enjoyed it
    • 2/5
      I tried to like this book, but I just didn't. It's Grisham's work, and I respect the great man as being one of the top "Masters of Legal Suspense", but The Partner failed to impress me. It has a really great synopsis, sure, but (and there are a lot of "buts" about this one) once I started reading it, I found the plot to be too slow-moving and boring?not to mention horrendous in character development. For some may regard The Partner as being top-notch Grisham, but I do not.
    • 2/5
      One of his least believeable and most predictable.
    • 4/5
      This was a really good one. Very clever, good characters and a better ending than he usually delivers.
    • 3/5
      started 11/13/2010; It started off 4 star but the final 100 pages or so were three, the ending though predictable was only a 2 star.

      Pretty much the whole plot was 70% predictable but I did like how it unraveled; I never really liked the Lanigan character as he came off smug to me.

      Nonetheless I'm still a Grisham fan
    • 4/5
      Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich and powerful, and who would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down.John Grisham held my interest with this book as he let details of the story come out little by little. It is a quick read and a great audio to listen to. It had lots of twists and turns which made it hard to put down. I also found it to be very suspenseful and very creative. I only have one complaint about the ending which I did not enjoy. It was rather abrupt and I think a happier ending would have been better. I look forward to reading another Grisham book as I find his writing to be excellent. I would highly recommend this book to those who like legal thrillers.
    • 3/5
      This is not one of the best Grisham books, but there is enough suspense and drama to make it worth reading. I don't think it has been made into a movie yet although there may be a TV series pending...

      A man is hiding out in Brazil under an assumed identity. Four years before he had been a partner in a successful law firm in America. By all accounts he was happily married and adored his daughter. But then, he had died in a car accident. Shortly afterwards ninety million dollars had disappeared from a client.....It's only a matter of time before the man is found and positively identified, but who will get to him first?

      It's difficult to come up with the moral of this story without ruining the plot for those who have yet to read it. One obvious lesson is that living on the run from the law or running away from your past is no fun and will eventually catch up with you. This applies across the board.

      God has created us with a conscience and knowledge of right and wrong. If we persistently sin, our conscience may become dulled but there will be a nagging feeling that something is not quite right. We cannot escape it. The Partner is a good illustration of this truth--the man is always looking over his shoulder and waiting for the inevitable. He cannot relax and enjoy the things he has acquired. We know too, that those who evade justice in this life will face the ultimate Judge in the next. The One who judges perfectly according to His law all those who have not trusted Jesus for their salvation. This book also reminds us that relationships are more valuable than possessions.

      There is some mild swearing. There is no sexual content apart from some references to nudity. There is some graphic violence including torture scenes which will upset some. Grisham fans may enjoy this, I doubt anyone could have predicted the ending!

    • 2/5
      This book is 418 pages - it felt like 700. I mostly read crime fiction, bios, and history. Grisham came out recently with a new legal thriller and it occurred to me that it had been a long time since I read one, and that it might be a good break from my usual stuff. But the new book wasn't exactly flying off the shelves so I googled "Grisham's best novels", logged the top five of a number of experts, read a few plot descriptions and decided on "The Partner", written almost 20 years ago.The story is about Patrick, a young attorney who is brought into a small Biloxi, MS law firm with four partners, four very crooked partners. After a few years with the firm, Patrick fakes his own death, intercepts a huge wire transfer of the lawyers' gross settlement from a Federal case, and eventually runs away to Brazil. With $90 million. The book begins four years later when Patrick is captured and tortured by a private investigation team. Patrick survives, just barely, and is bought back to the US to stand trial not only for the theft but capital murder as well.I expected a long, detailed account of every detail of the crime in the usual courtroom melodrama, with tainted witnesses, shouted objections, surprise testimony, teary confessions - but nada. Instead, "The Partner" is all about investigation, pre-trial prep, deals. Perry Mason it is not.Nor was it my cup of tea. I don't like action thrillers (which this is not) nor legal thrillers as it turns out. So maybe it's not fair that I rate such a book a 2-3 particularly when Grisham has had so much success and has built such a devoted fan base. Nevertheless, let me point out a couple of things I did not care for at all, and which are the primary reasons I am unlikely to read another legal thriller. For starters, about the first 40% or perhaps close to 200 pages was stage setting. Lots of characters are introduced, lots of details about the case as well as other material whose significance becomes clear only much later, etc etc. I understand the need to do this, but it was soooo dull. So not much happens for so long - I started to think about how many days it would be until I finished the book and could start something else. I put it down quite often after only reading a few pages. Secondly, it felt to me like a made for TV movie. The hero knows everything, the bad guys are really bad. No really big surprises, and there is a set-up for the Big Twist that takes some steam out of - guess what? - yes, the Big Twist.
    • 3/5
      Picked this one up in a charity shop for my unexpected section. It's really not what I'd normally read, what with all the crime and lawyers and being terribly terribly sneaky, but it's easy to read and I could appreciate the sneakiness. It's a pretty clever plot, I think, with a sting in the tail which actually made me say ouch aloud.

      The weird thing about it is that the main character isn't innocent. He pretty much deserves what he's getting, and it's really weird that everything comes up roses for him -- at least legally, and in terms of his plot all going to plan. Maybe not personally. But he's done something really awful -- even once the 'murder' is explained -- and yet people still like him, still do what he needs... it's weird and it's hard to really root for him.

      The story overall is a bit dry, but it is kind of interesting trying to follow all the twists and turns. It's a little unrealistic that something could turn out so perfectly, and the sting in the tail doesn't really change that, but it's fun enough. I have a couple of other Grisham books to read. We'll see how they go.
    • 3/5
      I cannot think of many things that would piss me off more than finding out that my husband faked his death...
    • 4/5
      I've wanted to read this book for years and finally got the chance. The story is well written and held my attention. The ending surprised me though. What's the ultimate moral of the story?
    • 4/5
      I'll be honest this book has been sitting on my bookshelf for a very long time and I've not really been enthusiastic about reading it. I've seen a few of the Grisham movies and while I know that I should never judge a book by the movie I just could not bring myself to read this book. I finally read it and I'm happy to report that I loved it. The characters were very well developed and the story was just captivating. You could predict what was going to happen but the getting there was simply amazing.
    • 4/5
      Legal twist and turns make this a super read. At first, in the book The Partner I wasn't a big fan of the main character, Patrick. I was not quite sure if I was supposed to want Patrick to get away with everything but found myself on his side even though I didn't know why he had committed this theft. I did admire the way he had every angle thought out. The book was hard to put down. The constant legal twists and turns in the story kept me riveted. Mr. Grisham kept me interested with the number of players in the plot and then he planted this hidden thought of what would it be like to start life over? I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I would recommend it highly. Beware; the ending is not expected and rather disheartening.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed reading this story. Plenty of suspense all the way through. I would recommend this one to anyone who is a Grisham fan.
    • 4/5
      Entertaining maybe, but hardly scintillating. The biggest problem is the hero - one is supposed to be rooting for him and his cleverness, but actually he's a completely nasty piece of work.Patrick, living with an unfaithful wife, is as is usual in a Grisham novel, a sucessful lawyer. He's just been made partner in a Mississipi law firm, and learns the other partners are about to kick him out, prior to recieving a multimillion dollar fee. And so Patrick plans. First of all he tapes and records all sorts of secret conversations, and has his wife followed and daughter DNA tested (without permission which is illegal), then he stages his own death leaving his friends and family in the dark, and then steals the firms fee and flees to Brazil. The story starts with Patrick being caught by a private organiation chasing the money he stole.Nowhere is there any discussion about the thought of decieving so many people, nobody reproaches him for it, and it never crosses his mind. He's been a complete bastard, decieving his friends for years, spying on his wife, and work collegues, abandoning his paretns, and relying on his girlfiriend to keep him out of trouble, and not once, nowhere is this thought to be a problem. Needless to say, I had little sympathy for him. The writing is Grisham's usual, fastpaced, skipping over any plot holes but enjoyable mostof the time. For no explained reason Patrick decides to release his story in dribs and drabs rather than in one long conversation. This is annoying as Patricks story is the key part of the book, rather than all the manipulatin of the justice system going on around him. Fairly typical mid-course Grisham - it's not about lawyers in courtrooms making legal arguments, but it is about lawyers and corruption making backroom deals.
    • 2/5
      This was the first John Grisham novel I read, and I think it was a bad choice. I did not enjoy this book. The fundamental problem is that the protagonist, Patrick, is a wholly unsympathetic character: once we get past the initial torture scenes, we're left with a man who cares nothing about his family, fakes his own death, steals a large sum of money, then spends most of the book manipulating the legal system to try to walk away with as much loot as he can. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him? Admiration for his escapades? For me, it was a total misfire. And at the end of the story, Grisham throws one final twist that is perhaps intended to satisfy those who see injustice in Patrick's escape to freedom. Unfortunately, the twist is so arbitrary, going against everything we know about the characters, that it rings false and leaves the reader scratching his head in confusion. Not quite the effect the author was hoping for, I suspect.
    • 5/5
      I listened to John Grisham only a couple of weeks ago when he was discussing on c-span how he writes best when he has an outline. In listening to The Partner I was struck with the incredible arrangement of details to make everything work in sequence. I was trying to picture his outline for this book on some sort of wall or arranged in a pile of cards spread out on the floor---- it boggled my mind! I thoroughly enjoyed what I thought was a nicely complicated plot line.