A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a young daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. And the chase was on
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Only my second Grisham book, and I thought it was enjoyable. Not amazing or thrilling or edge of my seat, but standard 'good'.
It was very lawyer-y, sometimes the language would throw me for a little bit, but usually he would cleverly fanagle a layman's re-stating for the reader.
There were a number of "twists" that I saw coming, other than the last one (though that wasn't surprising as I didn't really see much/any love between the two) so I'm not sure why I saw them coming but it made the plot less exciting.
Sandy seemed very unrealistic to me/too generic.
Also, there was way too much flying around the world.
Narrator Frank Muller was great!