The Racketeer

Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge-s untimely demise? His 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.