Sure to appeal to a different group of readers, the story offers some interesting insight into the craft of writing the next 'great novel'. Grisham shows that he has talent to pen novels that keep lawyers and the law outside of the narrative.
With millions of dollars on the line, Mercer must decide what is most important to her. However, as she grows closer to an answer, Mercer may have second thoughts of toppling all she has built in a short period of time. Slowly, Mercer begins building bridges with Bruce Cable, in hopes of learning more about the manuscripts. Taking a risk, Mercer agrees to open some old wounds and pretends to be writing, while surrounding herself with the local writing community.
Mercer has struggled with her craft and is not sure she wants to play sleuth, particularly if it means returning to Camino Island, where she spent many summers with her grandmother. Meanwhile, Mercer Mann is approached by a private security firm to help with the reacquisition of the manuscripts under the guise of writing her next novel. When one is rumoured to have surfaced at a small book shop on Camino Island, the FBI's Rare Asset Recovery Unit pegs Bruce Cable as being involved and plan keep an eye on his bookselling operation. Quick-acting FBI agents are able to scoop up two of the five, but the others are still in hiding, along with the manuscripts. Scott Fitzgerald's manuscripts in the hands of some career criminals. A heist at one of Princeton's libraries puts a number of original F.
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Maybe the woman who wrote that part of the book put her own personality into Mercer? I don't know what to think.īack with another new novel, John Grisham seeks to expand his horizons with a story free of much legalese, but with the slightest hint of some criminal activity.
My guess - and warning - is, this is ghost-writing gone too far.Īlso, the main character (Mercer) is an absolutely unbearable, pretentious woman with no likable feature at all. Loved the beginning and the end, that actually sound like Grisham, but the middle section was a huge letdown, and it has a COMPLETELY "off" sound. When I buy a Grisham book, I DO NOT want to end up reading a ghostwritten novel where the innocent girl with no personality ends up in bed with the rough, handsome and mysterious boss of the local literary world. I'm not saying "girly" in a negative sense at all, just a matter of tastes, but I have this very strong feeling that he had some help from a female ghostwriter, one who writes VERY differently from John Grisham. Some of the portions where the girl's POV is adopted are just too intimately "girly" in style to have been written by him. I seriously doubt John Grisham wrote the whole thing. It's like reading two different books intertwined, and I couldn't care less about the second one. The truth is, the book goes from very fast and very gripping to very slow and very girly far too quickly. I'm a great Grisham fan, and I can say without a doubt that this is not one of his best works. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.īut eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.īruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida.
Librarian’s note: This is a previously-published edition ofĪ gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library.
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