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, one of the undisputed
masters of the legal thriller.
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