The boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
Legal Dramatic thriller
Ebook
Rating 4/5 overall; one of his best works!
John has been gearing up! A time for Mercy or the Litigators or the recent sparring partner were like stepping stones to go back to the John of The Runaway Jury and A Time to Kill!
The novel starts like a script of movies such as City of Gods! How immigrants come to a place and how a place develops. The development of bars and casinos and finally of a mafia lord!
And how on the other side you have another immigrant getting on the right side of law and becoming a lawyer!
One side slowly going into crime while the other going into law!
The story is chiefly of the second and third generation. Lance Marco who plays the undisputed king of the land and Jesse the honest lawyer who takes him on!
The next generation is Kieth and Hugh who both used to play together and were school friends and colleagues in the beginning.
In fact both of generations were actually friends and acquaintances in the beginning but when the fight begins then there is no looking back!
In a battle and game of cats and dogs, wins and loses; you are treated to an epic showdown first between the second generation and then the third!
The setting of the novel is not of the recent time so the idea of education and making money is more or less in opposition! You can be either educated and poor or rich! At least that’s how it’s shown in the novel!
The biggest factor which storms and changes the whole equation literally is a big storm! Reminiscent of the Camino winds novel and may show a personal connection of the author am sure!
In novels like these you clearly know the side you have to root for! There’s always a good and a bad with lines clearly drawn! That may be another reason why John placed this novel in this time period! A current novel can never delineate between good and bad! Nowadays everything is grey! Everyone can be good or bad as per the situation!
That and the ending where you are treated with the satisfaction that Crime does not pay makes you wish for those good times (at least in a novel!)
Of course it’s Grisham and that means court and lawyers figure prominently in the story and story line! In the novel though the lawyers and the judge and the whole court system has been shown to be so good! I guess at least in a fictional society or novel; you can write what you wish is true and be optimistic! The cops and and local police has shown to be corrupt to the core though! And the Federal Police and other police is on the good side! Again; clear demarcation!
The story flows like a soap opera script and brings back the days of Sidney Sheldon and his extremely enjoyable and entertaining novels!
The boy is back! And how!
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