John Grishams The Partner

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He wants you to see you have to find your own way to make yourself happy but you should be prepared to face the consequences of any drastic actions which the main character was prepared to do. The main character of this story, Patrick Lanigan, was a partner in a thriving firm about to receive thirty million dollars in legal fees from a client. He seemed happy to everyone, but he wasn't. He knew about his partner's plans to kick him out of the firm, he knew about his wife's weekends with another man, he even knew her six year old child wasn't even his. So he carefully planned everything and when the time was right he faked his death and stole ninety million dollars from his former firm and went into hiding. He hide for four and a half years and then was caught. John Grisham wanting this message to get across to his readers: "At some point in life, everybody thinks about walking away."
The setting stays the same in all of Grisham’s books. They are always set in the south, ...

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head of the FBI and informed him of Patrick's disappearance. She told him that Jack Stephano was the head of the search for Patrick. Jack Stephano was hired by Patrick's former employers Bogan, Rapley, Vitrano and Havarac, Benny Aricia the plaintiff in the Platt & Rockland case and the insurance companies Monarch-Sierra and Northern Case Mutual to track him down, over two million dollars was needed to finally find him. Cutter informed Hamilton Jaynes, Director of the FBI about the capture of Patrick Lanigan. Hamilton Jaynes threatened Mr. Stephano until he agreed to turn Partick over to the FBI. Once back on American soil Patrick contacted Sandy McDermott, an old lawyer buddy of his from ...

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