The Partner is a fictitious legal thriller based in Mississippi. It exposes to the audiences what careful planning and good timing can do in the world of politics and law. The main character planned everything so well and made sure that even getting caught had it's benefits. He planned it so, those he despised would take the fall and many, including him would benefit somehow. In the end everyone got what they wanted except the selfish ones who deserved nothing but the inevitable, punishment. I believe the author wants everyone to see that at one time or another everyone wants to escape his or her life, that not everybody's life is as great as it may seem, regardless of money. He wants you to see you have to find your own

To open Clovis' grave Sandy had to visit his only living relative who was his daughter and settle with her for fifty thousand dollars. The real ending of the story is when the prosecutor, T.L. Parrish reads the letter from Clovis' daughter asking them not to press charges claiming the family had suffered enough.

way to make yourself happy but you should be prepared to face the consequences of any drastic actions which the main character was prepared to do. The main character of this story, Patrick Lanigan, was a partner in a thriving firm about to receive thirty million dollars in legal fees from a client. He seemed happy to everyone, but he wasn't. He knew about his partner's plans to kick him out of the firm, he knew about his wife's weekends with another man, he even knew her six year old child wasn't even his. So he carefully planned everything and when the time was right he faked his death and stole ninety million dollars from his former firm and went into hiding. He hide for four and a half years and then was caught. John Grisham wanting this message to get across to his readers: "At some point in life, everybody thinks about walking away."

The Partner was an up and down book. It was really hard to determine a specific climax and if is possible I believe it lasted for at least one quarter or the novel. I never knew what was going to happen, each time I thought the main character was in serious trouble and would not get out of it, he had a perfectly conceived plan of "escape". I believe the story started to pick up around the time Patrick filed a suit against the FBI because of the torture he suffered when he was captured. At the reader knows nothing until Patrick and Eva slowly tell bits and pieces of Patrick's story. At first Patrick strikes a deal and hands over tapes of phone conversations between his former partners, Benny Aricia and a certain US Senator enough proof that false claims were made by Benny Aricia and the Bogan Firm and the ninety million he stole. In return for the tapes the "feds" dropped all charges except the state's capital murder charge. Then Patrick proved that he in fact did not murder anyone by uncovering old Clovis' grave, I believe this is the highest point of action, it was to me at least. Patrick did not actually murder anyone, the body was already dead when it was burnt up beyond recognition, so they mistook it for that of Patrick Lanigan. When they unearthed Clovis' grave I thought they were going to find the body but instead they found the four cinder bricks like had Patrick said.

The setting stays the same in all of Grisham's books. They are always set in the south, usuall

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Approximate Word count = 1781
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)