Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. On paper, Malcolm’s situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied. What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price—especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. And the Racketeer wasn’t born yesterday . . . Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.
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John Ray Grisham Jr.
John Grisham é ex-político e advogado aposentado. Incentivado por sua mãe, desenvolveu cedo o hábito da leitura e se tornou um admirador das obras de John Steinbeck, prêmio Nobel de literatura em 1966. Escolheu o Direito como área de atuação, tornando-se advogado especializado em defesa criminal e processos por danos físicos. Escrevia nas horas em que o seu trabalho lhe permitia, e logo publicou seu primeiro livro, Tempo de Matar, em 1989. Seus livros giram sempre em torno de questões de advocacia, e geralmente criticam nuances do sistema judiciário americano e das grandes firmas de direito. Desde maio de 1998 a Universidade do Estado do Mississippi possui uma sala de leitura com o seu nome. Em 2006 figurou na Top 100 Celebrites da revista Forbes. Vive com sua esposa, Renée e suas duas crianças Ty e Shea. É o sexto escritor com mais livros vendidos na década de 2000, segundo a Nielsen BookScan, e também o sexto escritor mais lido nos Estados Unidos da América, segundo a Publishers Weekly.
158 Livros
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Arkansas, Estados Unidos da América