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| Categories | Thrillers & Suspense |
| Author | John Grisham |
| Publisher | Doubleday (March 29, 2016) |
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 120 pages |
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I. Book introduction
PARTNERS, AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT • This standalone prequel to the #1 bestseller Rogue Lawyer tells the story of how Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and partner.
Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers won’t go near. It’s controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian needs his bodyguard/assistant/sidekick: Partner. So if Sebastian is just about the most unpopular lawyer in town, why is Partner so loyal to him? How did they meet? And what’s the real story of this man of few words who’s as good with a gun as he is with the law? The surprising answers are all in PARTNERS, John Grisham’s first exclusively digital short story.
About John Grisham
John Grisham (born February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American novelist, lawyer and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his popular legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 28 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three authors to have sold two million copies on a first printing.
Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practised criminal law for about a decade and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990.
Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. Grisham’s first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which continues the story ten years after the events of the film and novel. Seven of his other novels have also been adapted into films:
- The Chamber,
- The Client,
- A Painted House,
- The Pelican Brief,
- The Rainmaker,
- The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John Girsham lives on a farm in central Virginia.
II. Reviewer Partners: A Rogue Lawyer Short Story
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1. TUCSON ROBERT reviews for Partners
UP AMERICA by Eric Bolling is one of the best “how to get our nation back on track” books …
WAKE UP AMERICA by Eric Bolling is one of the best “how to get our nation back on track” books I have read in years. In one way it is a memoir of Eric Bolling’s life—his youth, his convictions and how he got to where he is today. Eric tackles the nation’s problems and names extremists who got us into the fix we are in today. He doesn’t leave it there. He provides a road-map of how to dig our way out of the snake pit the Lefties and Obama have driven us into. He details how to be successful, be a patriot, raise a family and how and when to take chances. He points out how the Liberals, Lefties or Progressives, by whatever moniker you attach, have led this nation down the disastrous path of political correctness with their lies and slimy leadership. In their determination to change America, Obama and his socialist followers have used fear, intimidation and class warfare to divide us. They have used these tactics to tamp down all thoughts that America is an exceptional nation. Bolling intersperses humor into descriptions of his 18-years as a trader in the pits of the New York Stock Exchange and the valuable lessons he learned there. He touches on the disastrous impact of our politically correct public school system and how it has turned our children into believing that the government should provide food, shelter and education to all at government expense.
If nothing else, this book should be a wake up call and guide to get the nation back on track. The Left has captured the media and academia at all levels. This should scare the hell out of us. Every parent and every patriot should read Eric’s book.
I give Wake Up America a strong 5+ stars.
2. VINCE reviews for Partners
“Partners” is a 5-Star ‘Page-Turner’ of a Murder Trial Procedural novella!
Okay, I’m calling “Partners” a novella because it is a perfect ‘little novel’. It has 26 chapters which pull you into the story with each new scene and which compel you to read the next chapter. It also tells a complete story just as a novel does. As a bonus, it also fills in the backstory for the author’s best selling “Rouge Lawyer”. But you don’t have to read “Rouge Lawyer” to enjoy this novella. It is truly a ‘stand alone’ work that I highly enjoyed reading.
As a novella “Partners” is clearly one of the best I’ve ever read. Surely 5 stars is an easy call. However, if you compare it to a novel, it is less than 5 stars. A novella needs to deal with a limited cast of characters and a limited theme. This one does that with its one theme: the ins and out of defending a murderer. I found it so interesting that I could not wait to turn each page. For many fans this inside look at the law is what makes the author so enjoyable to read.
Again: as a ‘murder trial procedural’ this is a 5-Star success.
3. JAN reviews for Partners
This is advertised as a prequel to Rogue Lawyer, but it seemed more like a sequel to me. Lawyer Sebastian Rudd seems much more mature and nicer than he was in Rogue Lawyer even though this novella tells us the events happened prior to that story. What we get to find out here is how Sebastian and the man called Partner in Rogue Lawyer met. In that novel Partner is the only person that Sebastian can trust. He is his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and well, partner. He wasn’t always called Partner though. From this short novella we learn their back story. Back when Sebastian was Partner’s attorney defending him on charges of murdering a police officer, he was was known as Tee Ray. He was an out of work father struggling to survive and keep his 14 year old son from a life on the streets. The ending was a little too tied up nicely with a bow, but still a pretty darn good courtroom drama. I would have liked a lot more of the courtroom stuff, but like most of these prequels lately, things get resolved fairly quickly.
4. JEFFYOAK reviews for Partners
It’s hard to know, but usually, when they right a prequel before you start the series later, it is right to read the prequel first. I’m guessing that’s not true here. I suspect this sequel was written to explain how such a bizarre pair ever became legal partners, and it was written for people who already loved them and wanted that backstory. Not yet having experienced that, this was a partially disjointed story about two guys going through a rough experience and then, bizarrely, concluding by saying, “Hey! We should be legal partners. I mean, after I stop being a criminal and go to law school.”
So… read this one after the later books. At least the first one. But Grisham’s ability to tell a story and keep you turning pages made this pretty good even given that problem.
5. DENISE reviews for Partners
Don’t miss out on Partners, it will make you want to jump right in to Rouge
There was a lot of hype leading up to the release of this Rogue prequel but it was well deserved. It was a quick read with just enough detail to leave you wanting more!
Grisham books, for me, tend to start out slow but not this one. It jumped right in and got to the point. I’m not a huge Grisham fan but this one definitely peaked my interest enough that I was in search of Rogue to continue the journey and see where it leads. If you have already read Rogue, be prepared to reread it!
I don’t think it matters which order you read them in, for me I get the lead in but if you have already read Rogue then you HAVE to get Partners to see where it all starts.
It’s a short, easy read. It flows well and can be read in a couple hours or less.
Even though its only available in Ebook form you can get the ap for your computer or phone (which means you can read it on your lunch break or while your stuck in traffic… if your not driving)
6. ROB LEO reviews for Partners
Rekindled my interest in reading novels
This is the first time I read Grisham in short story or any novelist in short story for that matter. My disappointment is in the lack of details but that’s understandable of course.
The story is a quick read as prologue for the Rogue Lawyer, I believe. The story is one of those that you start reading with a well-crafted introduction that stirs your curiosity but leaves you wanting to know more, anticipating what’s happening next.
I have to say that this short story has rekindled my interest in reading novels such as Grisham’s after a long hiatus brought about by the gadgets and social media.
7. RACHEL reviews for Partners
I needed a break from my current historical read which despite compelling topic I have interest in is slow moving and somewhat dry. It’s causing me to read like a page a day. I’m reading with a buddy tho n didn’t want to get pulled into some long good book I can’t put down. When i saw this short prequel by an author I really like to a book I own it hit the spot and sure enough I started it at 2:30 am got 2/3 done and finished when I awoke after a few hours of rest. I look fwd to the full book this leads up to. And I’ll appreciate I’m sure knowing how these 2 characters met.
I don’t know if I should ever rate a book this length 5 stars but I’m going with my first inclination. For what it is a short ish prequel it kept me entertained it had a goof amount of meat for its size especially and so I’m going on that and sheer readability.
8. FEARTHELIGHT reviews for Partners
This was okay. i don’t normally read short stories, but “rogue lawyer” is one of my favorite books of all time and i said, you know what, i can finish this in an hour and maybe some of my nostalgia over this book would fade.
Turns out it did not and now i want to reread the main novel. oh well. i can think of worse things to do with my time.
I was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of mancini, and sebastian was as cool as ever – the case was interesting, but not overwhelmingly so. i would have liked more development on the actual friendship/loyalty dynamic between partner and sebastian – this is what i had expected, after all.
But oh well, the conclusion is that this opened my appetite for lawyer books
9. PAULA DEMBECK reviews for Partners
This is a short e-book novella, the prequel to Grisham’s novel “Rogue Lawyer”. In this story we learn all about the man Sebastian Rudd calls Partner, the man who has taken on the role of bodyguard, driver, golf caddy and friend. We know from the previous novel that Rudd successfully defended him when he was accused of shooting an undercover narcotics cop and that they have been together ever since.
This story begins before Rudd has established his reputation as a street lawyer. He has his office in a crummy room across from the city jail, the space that was later firebombed. He is about ten years out of law school and taking as many criminal defense cases as he can, anxious to gain court room experience. He has plenty of clients, but few who can pay his fees. He knows if he builds up his reputation as someone skilled in the courtroom, the paying clients will come.
Partner is Tee Ray, a man without a wife but with a fourteen year old son named Jameel, who Tee Ray is struggling to keep in school and away from the gangs that populate their poor neighborhood. Jobs are scarce and Tee Ray is desperate for some cash. He reluctantly takes on the role of a mule for a large Mexican cartel which recruits locals from the neighborhood to run drugs from one location to another. Tee Ray has no plans to sell drugs in the street but was willing to move drugs around town, carry a gun and take a few chances. He just wanted to do it part time, save a little cash, pay his bills and then move out. His long term plan is a more dignified life, one built on honesty, but it was not to be. In a dark alley he is confronted by a police officer who yells at him to freeze. Tee Ray does as he is told but the officer begins shooting and Tee Ray is wounded. He drops to the ground and tries to find cover under a parked car to protect himself. The cop continues to fire and Tee Ray, forced to defend himself pulls out his gun and shoots the officer, killing him with his second bullet. Tee Ray is quickly charged with murdering a police officer and thrown in jail.
Rudd takes on the case and agrees to defend Tee Ray, whose guilt is never at question. What is not known is exactly what happened before the shooting. Rudd must put those pieces together before he can mount a defense for his client.
There are two questions in the plot that lack coherence. Why for example did the police officer continue to shoot at Tee Ray when Tee Ray was already complying with his demands and was subdued. If he was trying to meet a quota he could do that by simply making an arrest. There was no need to continue shooting. Leaving that gap unexplained was troubling.
Even the decision Tee Ray took to run drugs did not make sense after all the words about keeping his young son from the violence of street gangs. So of the jobs available, why did Tee Ray decide to push crack around the city? He knew enough about street life to know that he could not avoid serious trouble with that kind of job. Trafficking drugs could get him hard time. And he was going to the flea market, the known location for those who deal drugs. He knew the cops often left the dealers and their clients alone there, but they were also known to wander in every once in a while to keep control of the situation. What would happen to his son if he got caught? He was risking so much! Had he checked out shifts at MacDonald’s, driving a truck or doing road work? How about moving out of the area? Why did he take on a job that put him clearly in the path of people with whom he did not want his son to associate? It did not make sense.
Once again Grisham presents some of the fascinating court scenes for which he has become known. The dialogue and repartee between judges and lawyers is realistic and interesting. And as in “Rogue Lawyer”, Grisham mines the theme of police brutality and the tendency for the police to lie, fabricate evidence or do whatever is necessary to protect their fellow cops. But again their motivation is not explained. Was it pure racism (Tee Ray is black), their arrogant search for power or the brash entitlement they assumed because they were willing to assume the dangerous role of protecting the public from their enemies.
Rudd also discovers the power of the media because of the cases he takes on. This time, the media has slanted the story so it appears that a drug dealer murdered a cop in a savage execution style killing while the cop begged for his life. Over time Rudd is developing an enjoyment of being in the media and is learning how to use it for his own purposes.
Despite my criticisms this was a good, fast moving story and an entertaining read. I enjoyed hearing about this duo’s past and how and why Partner was so devoted to Rudd, ready to risk his life in a job that few would have taken on. Certainly this is a recommended read and one that could be taken on as a “stand alone” novella.
10. CAROL JONES-CAMPBELL reviews for Partners
This is John Grisham’s First Original E-Short. In this standalone best seller ROGUE LAWYER, John Grisham tells the story of Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk and partner.
Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers won’t go near. It’s controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian needs his Bodyguard/assistant/sidekick: Partner. So if Sebastian is just about the most unpopular lawyer in town, why is Partner so loyal to him? How did they meet? And, what’s the real story of this man of so few words who’s as good with a gun as he is with the Law? The surprising answers are all in PARTNERS, John Grisham’s first exclusively digital short story.
I’m kind of embarrassed that I did not know what Rogue Lawyer meant. So half of my objective was to find out the meaning of rogue and to enjoy John Grisham, one of my all time favorite authors and enjoy a short read. I did both and enjoyed both. Recommend!!!!!!.
III. Partners: A Rogue Lawyer Short Story Quotes
The best book quotes from Partners by John Grisham
“Tee Ray met a crack runner called Tox.”
“Everybody wanted a better life away from the streets and drugs and violence and hopelessness.”
Excerpted from Partners by John Grisham
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