The Racketeer by John Grisham - ISBN: 9781399751902
Paperback
Judge dead, secrets caged, a prisoner holds the key.

The Racketeer

The gripping crime thriller from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    14 October 2025

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Summary

EVERYONE HAS THEIR PRICE.

A judge has been brutally murdered.

His body is found in a remote lakeside cabin. There is no sign of forced entry or a struggle. Just two dead bodies - the judge and his secretary - and one state-of-the-art safe, opened and emptied.

Ex-attorney Malcolm Bannister knows who killed the judge - and why. The FBI need to know his secrets. And Bannister is ready to talk. But there’s a catch: he is currently serving a ten-year prison…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399751902
ISBN-10:1399751905
Author:John Grisham
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:14 October 2025
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 34mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Electrifying * Guardian *
The best thriller writer alive
No one does it better than Grisham * Daily Telegraph *
Exhilarating … surprising … ingenious * New York Times *
The Racketeer is guilty of only one thing: keeping us engaged until the very last page * USA Today *
Fast-paced … with enough startling plot twists - and changes of scenery, from Miami to Montego Bay and beyond - to surprise even the most suspicious reader * Wall Street Journal *
Tautly plotted * Entertainment Weekly *
A satisfying, deeply engrossing thriller in which different forms of justice are ultimately served * Washington Post *

About The Author

John Grisham

Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time To Kill.

His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.

He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honoured with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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