The Appeal

The Appeal
by John Grisham
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Publisher: Doubleday
Salesrank: 69
Released: 2008-01-29
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Just Awful (2008-04-15)
I got thru the 1st chapter and it was so awful I took the book back to Costco. Bad Corporate CEO knowingly dumps chemicals into ground water; wife #3 is only eye candy; trailer park trash are “forced” to drink poison stinky water with no help from local govt officials, etc. You can get away with some limited stereotyping, but this is so absurd it is ludicrous. Unfortunately Amazon doesn’t have a zero star rating.A Page Turner Extraordinaire (2008-04-15)
Mary Grace and Tom Payton are a husband and wife legal team and for years they’ve been representing a woman in Bowmore, Mississippi who lost both her husband and child to cancer which was supposedly caused by Krane Chemical’s deliberate chemical spills into the town’s water supply. The cancer rate in Bowmore is fifteen times the national average, everyone in town drinks bottled water, even the public pool has been closed.

On the face of it one would think the case was open and shut and that Krane Chemical should settle and be down with it, but the chemical company is a subsidiary of a conglomerate which is run by Carl Trudeau and he’s just not the settling kind. There is nothing nice, good or even remotely likable about Trudeau. He’s a corporate insider who buy and spits out companies like licorice.

Wes and Mary Grace have been working the case for years, taking on everything Trudeau throws at them. They’ve gone the extra mile for the cause, they’ve had to let other clients go, they’ve sold their house, they lives have become this case. They believe in their client, in what they’re doing, but when they win, Trudeau’s attorneys are not worried, because they believe they’ll win on Appeal.

Trudeau will stop at nothing, the Payton’s are determined and there you have the setup for this might versus right, good versus evil story that will keep you glued to your chair, eyes pinned to the pages, heart pounding as you pour through this story. Nobody does suspense and intrigue the way John Grisham does.

Ken Douglas, author of Dead Ringer, Desperation Moon & Running ScaredGood read . . . (2008-04-15)
My only disappointment with The Appeal was that it ended too soon. There was so much more I wanted to know, and I wonder if perhaps a sequel is in the offing.The Appeal (2008-04-14)
I used to love new releases by Grisham but I had to will myself to keep going and finish The Appeal. At first it had me and I did not want to put it down but then it started repeating itself.The Appeal (2008-04-14)
I have been reading 25 to 30 novels a year for the past 20 years and I have read all of John Grisham’s books. this one I can not recommend to anyone as it has the worst ending of anything I have read over this 20 year period. I am wondering if the author just assumes that anything he writes will go to the top of the best seller list. He is correct, but if he writes endings like this in future books readers will slowly loose interest in buying his publications.

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