Genre: Fiction—Thriller
Completed: 4 November 2014
Summary & Review:
Summoned home to settle his father’s estate, Ray Atlee returns to his hometown of Clanton, Mississippi. As he enters his boyhood home he finds his father dead, an apparent overdose of morphine during his battle with end-stage terminal cancer, and also finds something completely unexpected: a hidden stash of over three million dollars in crisp $100 bills. Torn about what to do and who to tell, Ray stashes the money and hides his discovery from his brother. Soon, however, he realizes that someone else knows about the money and will stop at nothing to get it.
My dad has always said that Grisham is hit or miss. One of his books will knock it out of the park and the next will be a dud. This book, unfortunately, falls in the latter category. The plot plodded along as virtually nothing happened after the discovery of the hidden cash for almost three hundred pages. Then, when the action finally picked up, it just wasn’t that exciting. The Associate (#182) wasn't a much better read.
Rating: 5.5
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