20 year wait and this was so disappointing. It’s one of those books that you start reading and you keep hoping that it’s going to get better but it does not. The pace is very slow and never picks up. It was also very predictable from the beginning of the book when one of the characters gets sick and the fallout from that to the very end. I read 3/4 of it and skipped to the last two chapters. I could not finish it. Very disappointing.

Goes nowhere… super-slow, unrewarding read

So disappointing. The story was nothing but traveling around and making phone calls. Descriptions of cities and meetings…Blah!

The plot is an endless and boring effort of raising ransom money… nothing more. One of his worst.

Tedious drawn out story line and in the end with no explanation for the central conflict of the plot

Routine plot, slow moving and uninteresting characters.

Awful. Boring and poorly written. I couldn’t even finish it.

Very predictable, kept on waiting for a twist to occur but never did. It was not as suspenseful as other of his books.

Fifteen years after narrowly escaping a criminal Memphis law firm with millions in mob money our hero is a partner in the worlds biggest law firm and his wife is an acclaimed food editor. Has the mob turned the other cheek? All is forgiven? Too big a hole that needs to be filled. Besides that, the plot was too predictable. Not Grisham’s best effort.

I was so excited for this sequel to the firm, but it truly disappointed. So boring and the climax was blah. It felt like the author was just trying to show off his knowledge of other countries and law, rather than write an intriguing story. Such a disappointment