The Appeal
by John Grisham
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Author: John GrishamEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-18
ISBN: 0385342926
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Delta
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Book Review: "Clete Coley wasn't a real lawyer."
Summary: 3 Stars
"Clete Coley wasn't a real lawyer. ... He didn't hang around the courthouse, and he disliked most of the other lawyers in Natchez. Clete was simply a rogue, a big, loud, hard-drinking rogue of a lawyer who made more money at the casinos than he did at the office. ... He went to law school at night and finally passed the bar exam on his fourth attempt" (Ch. 17)
Clete is one of two or three nuggets of gold in the increasingly played out imagination of onetime great courtroom fictioneer John Grisham. The novel is 2008's THE APPEAL. To avoid paying a $41 million law suit for poisoning a widowed plaintiff's husband and son, an evil Manhattan multi-billionaire on the way up hires a shadowy firm to elect a squeaky clean Mississippi church deacon and little league coach to the State supreme court and vote there to reverse the lower court's punitive award. If this doesn't work, then hundreds of others similarly injured by toxic dumping in one small Mississippi town (it has 14 times the national cancer rate) will successfully sue the billionaire's firm (since having closed its in-State operations and fired its local employees and then moved to eco-unfriendly Mexico).
The hired guns select Clete Coley as a stalking horse pseudo- candidate and pay him a mere $150,000 plus expenses to run against a moderate Mississippi Supreme Court incumbent up for an anticipated shoo-in re-election. Clete declares early and mobilizes quite a few thousand fanatics against the incumbent. Meanwhile the brain trust pours real money into boosting the electibility of the little league coach.
Will well-heeled evil triumph over impoverished good? Can the out-of-state hired guns and their juggernaut be derailed? Will justice prevail over good? This is 19th Century melodrama dressed up as didactic political fiction. THE APPEAL ranks average or slightly below average in quality, in my opinion. It is only gambler Clete Cooley and his drunken, pointless political shenanigans that move this novel up to 2.2 dimensional character portrayal.-OOO-
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