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In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town s water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided?
The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Suprem...
Building a remarkable degree of suspense into the all too familiar ploys described here, Mr. Grisham delivers his savviest book in years. His extended vacation from hard-hitting fiction is over. However passionately he cared about the nonfiction events he described in An Innocent Man, his strong suit remains bluntly manipulative, no-frills storytelling, the kind that brings out his great skill as a puppeteer. It barely matters that the characters in The Appeal are essentially stick figures. What works for Mr. Grisham is his patient, lawyerly, inexorable way of dramatizing urgent moral issues.
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Luke Clare
reviewed The Appeal on June 07, 2016
The Appeal
2 generous stars. I am so quick to admit being late to the party, and also to being so dumb at times. This was one of them! I was alerted to the fact that Mr Grisham could be the male version of Danielle Steel. Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as I honestly do love a good DS at the right time, I do. This did connect the dots for me in a way.
I wonder if John Grisham left the legal profession because he saw too much rorting - dubious Judges too respecting of their own pockets and big business and none for the 'little people'?!
There was waaaay too much politics in this one for me. Almost ranting about guns, gays, liberals. I'm not anti-gay marriage by the way, I hate the prejudice displayed in real life (and here) but I thought I was reading a court room thriller!! It wasn't!!
I enjoyed the storylines at the beginning and end, but the majority was too bogged down in political content. Most of the unscrupulous Judges, 'pay-offers', all round bad guys, of which there were too many, ended up swimming into each other and it was a bit lost on me. Lots of effort to build up a character, for nothing to be gained (Judge McCarthy). I found portions of the medical scenario at the end unlikely, and also so much new info to take on board at the end also.
As a side issue, the narrator was excellent, very methodical, which helped, but on the flip side the Southern accent provided a 'Hicksville' tone for me.
Wes and Mary Grace were great gutsy characters, they also were lost in the end (to me) and there was no reward for my reading investment. Don't forget this is only my opinion. I just can't not say how it is. Loved others of Mr Grisham, not this one.
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