John Grisham is one of my favorite authors, and I read his The Appeal recently. It is his usual novel on the nuances of US legal system, added to which is the detailed description of how to rig an election. The election here is for the post of Judge on an Appeals court.
There are 3 parallel tracks involving 4 main protagonists in this book, the husband and wife lawyers Mary Grace and Wes Payton who argue the case. Carl Trudeau who owns Krane Chemicals and aginst whom the case are being fought and finally Ron Fisk who runs for the post of Judge.
The main track involving the lawyers does not involve you much as they always seem to be on the sidelines. Carl track is nothing unusual a ruthless shark with a character arc we are very much used too. The third track which involves the rigging of the election and Ron Fisk’s thought process is very engrossing.
The fault with the book is the three tracks do not merge that well and the structures stick out. I think Grisham wanted to make a story out of Brent Benjamin elections to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The rest was added on as an after thought.
It is easy to understand that the even though the book talks about rigging a low level Judge elections the same is can be applied for other elections. This is pretty much what all the electoral lobbies are all about, fixing up elections so that their candidate would provide them some kind of break when it matters. The ending is kind of lame if you are used to Grisham’s explosive closures, you know where this is heading to most of the times.
There are 3 parallel tracks involving 4 main protagonists in this book, the husband and wife lawyers Mary Grace and Wes Payton who argue the case. Carl Trudeau who owns Krane Chemicals and aginst whom the case are being fought and finally Ron Fisk who runs for the post of Judge.
The main track involving the lawyers does not involve you much as they always seem to be on the sidelines. Carl track is nothing unusual a ruthless shark with a character arc we are very much used too. The third track which involves the rigging of the election and Ron Fisk’s thought process is very engrossing.
The fault with the book is the three tracks do not merge that well and the structures stick out. I think Grisham wanted to make a story out of Brent Benjamin elections to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. The rest was added on as an after thought.
It is easy to understand that the even though the book talks about rigging a low level Judge elections the same is can be applied for other elections. This is pretty much what all the electoral lobbies are all about, fixing up elections so that their candidate would provide them some kind of break when it matters. The ending is kind of lame if you are used to Grisham’s explosive closures, you know where this is heading to most of the times.
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