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More than 30 years later The firm John Grisham is back with The network a new novel in which he once again features his hero Mitch McDeere. A winning comeback or a mistake? I tell you everything in this video!
Hello everyone, in this new video I talk to you about the new novel by John Grisham, The network published in Editions Jean-Claude Lattèsa sequel to his bestseller The firm, his second novel which made him the master of the legal thriller. To be honest, we no longer expected a sequel to The firm, impeccable novel, breathtaking and tense, then very successful film with Tom Cruise and I admit that personally after being fed with the novels of Grisham For years, I had neglected it for a while. But there is no question of missing this one and yet the pitch of the Network who dives Mitch Mcdeere in a espionage case in Libya and which takes him through many countries seemed quite far from the initial novel. The network takes place fifteen years after the events of The firm. Mitch became an attorney at a huge law firm where he racked up dollars and hours. He is still married to Abby and is now the father of two twins Clark And Carter and he lives in New York. He is no longer the naive young man full of illusions of The firm and the carefreeness that he now lacks makes him a character for whom we have less immediate empathy. Grisham find a trick to return Mitch in Memphis where everything was wrapped up in The firm but very quickly we forgot all about the intrigue of the 90s to concentrate on a brand new story in which a collaborator of Mitchdaughter of his mentor Luca Sandroniis kidnapped in Libya when she is sent there with the lawyer. The network is not so much a continuation of The firm than a novel, clever and tense, but we are not at all in the same type of atmosphere. Punctuated by the kidnapping of Giovanna, and by the ransom demanded by his captors, The network knows how to create real tension in pages where the suspense over the future of the hostage appears truly uncertain. The science of Grisham for the legal intrigues is not put to the test here as the novel leans more towards espionage and centers on the countdown left to the firm to pay the ransom in order to free the young woman from the hands of her jailers . The twists and turns here are less gripping than in The Firm, but until the end we remain hooked on the intrigue in which Grisham finds the spring to give a preponderant role to Abby the wife of Mitch. So of course The network is not the success that one could have hoped for, but the book is effective and reads with a certain pleasure while having the merit of making you want to dive back into the novels of Grisham which would have escaped our sagacity. The network of John Grisham is published by Jean-Claude Lattès. Tell me in the comments if you read it and what you thought of it and if not if this video made you want to discover it. And for advice on movies, series, books, don’t forget to subscribe!
Credits: Jean-Claude Lattès
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