The Exchange
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#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide.
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2 primary books#2 in The Firm
The Firm is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1991 with contributions by John Grisham.
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This book is the equivalent of a legal continuance hearing where literally nothing happens. The entire plot is revealed in the blurb, lawyer kidnapped, ransom needs to be paid. And the rest of the book is just chapter after chapter of failed meetings and thousands of miles of Mitch flying on private jets.
This is billed as a sequel to The Firm but that is as meaningless as the entire book. There's four chapters at the start that turn out to be entirely unrelated to anything in the rest of the book and some mild connections in the last 50 pages but a sequel? Hardly. Grisham seems to have written this book and then some editor realized nothing happens so he had Grisham write a few more unrelated chapters and change the characters so it'd sell a few more copies from people who like The Firm.
I only kept reading assuming something, anything would happen in this book. It doesn't.
Also, it's kind of sloppy. At one point there's a meeting with the junior senator from New York, another pointless meeting. The junior senator is in his third term and the senior senator is “showing no signs of fatigue or vulnerability.” The thing is, this book is set in 2005, meaning our junior senator was elected no later than 1992. The senior senator is explicitly stated as having been elected in...1988.
Readable, as always, but I feel like it was a poor follow-up to the first book.
