The Racketeer

#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 judge's 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, Malcolm's situation isn't looking too good these days, but he's 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 Fawcett's death. And the Racketeer wasn't born yesterday.

Nothing is as it seems and everything's fair game in this wickedly clever novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.

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Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 10/23/2012
ISBN: 9780385535144
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Library Journal 05/01/2012 pg. 52
Entertainment Weekly 10/26/2012 pg. 79
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2012
Entertainment Weekly 11/23/2012 pg. 75
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2012

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 155608 / Racketeer
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17