When I buy a Grisham book, I DO NOT want to end up reading a ghostwritten novel where the innocent girl with no personality ends up in bed with the rough, handsome and mysterious boss of the local literary world. I'm not saying 'girly' in a negative sense at all, just a matter of tastes, but I have this very strong feeling that he had some help from a female ghostwriter, one who writes VERY differently from John Grisham. Some of the portions where the girl's POV is adopted are just too intimately 'girly' in style to have been written by him. I seriously doubt John Grisham wrote the whole thing. It's like reading two different books intertwined, and I couldn't care less about the second one. The truth is, the book goes from very fast and very gripping to very slow and very girly far too quickly.

I'm a great Grisham fan, and I can say without a doubt that this is not one of his best works. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.īut eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books.

Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.īruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. fast-moving, entertaining tale.”-Pittsburgh Post-GazetteĪ gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library.

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