The Racketeer

ISBN: 0804148937

Author: Grisham, John

Condition: New

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The Racketeer is guilty of only one thing: keeping us engaged until the very last page.-USA Today In the history of the United States, only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.His body is found in his remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or struggle. Just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied.Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judges 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, Malcolms situation isnt looking too good these days, but hes got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. 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 Fawcetts death. And the Racketeer wasnt born yesterday.Nothing is as it seems and everythings fair game in this wickedly clever novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.