It’s a boring story and incredibly poorly written. Such a surprise as I like all other books by John Grisham. It felt like it was written by an untalented high schooler.

From beginning to end this story grabs you and doesn’t let go. Good novels are believable, this one sure is.

Not his best work. Overall descent story, but not worthy of The Firm,. Misses the mark like a first draft.

20 year wait and this was so disappointing. It’s one of those books that you start reading and you keep hoping that it’s going to get better but it does not. The pace is very slow and never picks up. It was also very predictable from the beginning of the book when one of the characters gets sick and the fallout from that to the very end. I read 3/4 of it and skipped to the last two chapters. I could not finish it. Very disappointing.

Goes nowhere… super-slow, unrewarding read

So disappointing. The story was nothing but traveling around and making phone calls. Descriptions of cities and meetings…Blah!

The plot is an endless and boring effort of raising ransom money… nothing more. One of his worst.

Tedious drawn out story line and in the end with no explanation for the central conflict of the plot

Routine plot, slow moving and uninteresting characters.

Awful. Boring and poorly written. I couldn’t even finish it.