The Partner by John Grisham
The Partner by John Grisham
”They found him in Ponta Pora, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay. He lived alone in a small house on Rua Tiradentes and drove a red 1983 Volkswagen. He was thinner. His skin and hair were darker, and his nose and chin were different”
The man who was found wasPatrick Lanigan, who is the main character of the book .Four years earlier he was married and had a young daughter and had been a partner in a law firm in Biloxi, Mississippi. A badly burned body was found in his wrecked car and a funeral was held for Patrick. Six weeks later 90 million dollars disappears from the law firm´s bank account and Patrick´s partners begin to suspect him.
After stealing the money Patrick changes as much as possible in order to make it more difficult to find him. He gets a new identity as Danilo Silva, learns near perfect Portuguese, loses a lot of weight and also has plastic surgery.
Patrick is chased both by his former partners, who use a private detective named Jack Stephano, who want the 90 million, and the FBI who also want him for murdering the body in his car.
Patrick is tortured by the men working for Jack Stephano but he doesn´t tell them where the money is. The only person who actually knows this is Eva Miranda, who is his Brazilian lawyer and also his lover.
After returning to the United States Patrick is in a hospital because he has bad wounds after the torture and he is also immediately accused of murder and theft, asked to return the 90 million and his wife wants to divorce him.
In an ordinary book we would not have very much sympathy for a man like Patrick, but as the story unfolds must people probably get to like him. It turns out that the money which he took actually was stolen first by his partners and a man by the name Aricia, who had cheated the government. Patrick agrees to return not only the 90 million but also a generous interest of another 23 million.
The missing 19 year old boy who generally
”They found him in Ponta Pora, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay. He lived alone in a small house on Rua Tiradentes and drove a red 1983 Volkswagen. He was thinner. His skin and hair were darker, and his nose and chin were different”
The man who was found wasPatrick Lanigan, who is the main character of the book .Four years earlier he was married and had a young daughter and had been a partner in a law firm in Biloxi, Mississippi. A badly burned body was found in his wrecked car and a funeral was held for Patrick. Six weeks later 90 million dollars disappears from the law firm´s bank account and Patrick´s partners begin to suspect him.
After stealing the money Patrick changes as much as possible in order to make it more difficult to find him. He gets a new identity as Danilo Silva, learns near perfect Portuguese, loses a lot of weight and also has plastic surgery.
Patrick is chased both by his former partners, who use a private detective named Jack Stephano, who want the 90 million, and the FBI who also want him for murdering the body in his car.
Patrick is tortured by the men working for Jack Stephano but he doesn´t tell them where the money is. The only person who actually knows this is Eva Miranda, who is his Brazilian lawyer and also his lover.
After returning to the United States Patrick is in a hospital because he has bad wounds after the torture and he is also immediately accused of murder and theft, asked to return the 90 million and his wife wants to divorce him.
In an ordinary book we would not have very much sympathy for a man like Patrick, but as the story unfolds must people probably get to like him. It turns out that the money which he took actually was stolen first by his partners and a man by the name Aricia, who had cheated the government. Patrick agrees to return not only the 90 million but also a generous interest of another 23 million.
The missing 19 year old boy who generally