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The Racketeer

The gripping crime thriller from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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The Racketeer

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
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A judge has been brutally murdered.

His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just two dead bodies - the judge and his secretary - and one state-of-the-art safe, opened and emptied.

Ex-attorney Malcolm Bannister knows who killed the judge - and why. The FBI need to know his secrets. And Bannister is ready to talk. But there's a catch: he is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence.

Bannister knows that everything has a price - and this racketeer wasn't born yesterday.

💥350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: JOHN GRISHAM IS THE MASTER OF THE LEGAL THRILLER💥

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'A cracker of a read'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A six star read with more twists and turns than Ariadne's Labyrinth'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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Critic Reviews

Electrifying
The best thriller writer alive (Ken Follett)
No one does it better than Grisham
Exhilarating . . . surprising . . . ingenious
All stars
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Great fictional mystery as expected - narrator easy to listen to. Three quarters of the way through I had suspected the ending (somewhat) but it was still very enjoyable.

Another Grisham classic

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Was a struggle to finish. Just listened off the back of another of his books. This one was disappointing

Not that exciting

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Grisham’s a good story teller and draws you in. The reader couldn’t have been better. A very binge able listen.

Easy listening good yarn

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I found this book got boring. It wasn't the kind of book you couldn't put down.

Long Winded

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Not one of the better stories. So convoluted that it is an unreal and extremely unlikely tale. It annoyed me that the character squealed on a mate, otherwise I would have returned it.
Grisham was good at one time.

Protracted and quite monotonous.

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