Thursday, November 27, 2014

''Gray Mountain'', John Grisham

''Death, taxes and John Grisham's annual return to the bestseller list are all we can reliably count on nowadays. The first two are best to avoid, if at all possible. The last is simply unavoidable. With nearly 300 million books sold around the world, reading Grisham has become a global guilty pleasure. His dominance over the legal thriller -- infusing it with the guts of its own genre -- has made him more than just a popular writer who is read in 42 different languages. Like Coke and Pepsi, Grisham is now his own global brand.
Since the publication of A Time to Kill in 1989, Grisham has written one book a year, and true to form, his latest novel, Gray Mountain, arrives both on time and with all the thrilling suspense and supple plotline that we have come to expect of this master storyteller.
And this new novel is also very much of the moment, taking on a serious but generally underreported environmental issue -- strip mining, otherwise known as mountaintop removal. Coal mining in Gray Mountain is as villainous an industry as insurance companies are in Grisham's The Rainmaker and law firms are in The Firm..''

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