The Testament -

John Grisham

Arrow Books

2007

473 páginas

15h 46m

ISBN-13: 9780099245025

It was only a piece of paper but it could change many lives.

Troy Phelen is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and determined to cut his children out of his will.

Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long.

Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live in the deepest jungles of Brazil.

Nate's job is to find Rachel and tell her of Phelan's legacy, In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure their lives are forever altered.

Resenhas (2)

3 (Bom)

Pessoal - contracapa

Pessoal - mais um livro sobre questões jurídicas, no caso um testamento. Interessante descobrir que o Brasil é um dos cenários do enredo e as impressões do autor em relação ao Brasil, entre eles a sonoridade da língua. O desfecho poderia ser mais leve ou romântico.

Contracapa: In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewrinting his will. With his death just hours away. Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message tha will touch off a vicious legal battle and traansform dozens of live.
Because Troy Phelan's new ill names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles of Brazil.