1997 "March 1997, First Edition" stated; Doubleday publishers, New York; hardbound with ivory and celadon green boards and gilt lettering and anchor on spine; very good condition, unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
Description -
The Partner (1997) is a legal/thriller novel by noted American author John Grisham. It was Grisham's eighth novel.
 
Plot -
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him.  He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modes home, certainly not one of luxury.  Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen.  He was much thinner and his face had been altered.  He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.
 
But Danilo had a past with many chapters.  Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm.  He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future.  The one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a buring car and died a horrible death.  When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.
 
From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial.  Then he fled...