The Racketeer

A Novel

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  • **#1
  • NEW
  • YORK
  • TIMES
  • BESTSELLER
  • “The
  • Racketeer
  • is
  • guilty
  • of
  • only
  • one
  • thing:
  • keeping
  • us
  • engaged
  • until
  • the
  • very
  • last
  • page.”—USA
  • Today
  • •In
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • the
  • United
  • States,
  • only
  • four
  • active
  • federal
  • judges
  • have
  • been
  • murdered.
  • Judge
  • Raymond
  • Fawcett
  • has
  • just
  • become
  • number
  • five.His
  • body
  • is
  • found
  • in
  • his
  • remote
  • lakeside
  • cabin.
  • There
  • is
  • no
  • sign
  • of
  • forced
  • entry
  • or
  • struggle.
  • Just
  • two
  • dead
  • bodies:
  • Judge
  • Fawcett
  • and
  • his
  • young
  • secretary.
  • And
  • one
  • large,
  • state-of-the-art,
  • extremely
  • secure
  • safe,
  • opened
  • and
  • emptied.One
  • man,
  • a
  • former
  • attorney,
  • knows
  • who
  • killed
  • Judge
  • Fawcett,
  • and
  • why.
  • But
  • that
  • man,
  • Malcolm
  • Bannister,
  • is
  • currently
  • residing
  • in
  • the
  • Federal
  • Prison
  • Camp
  • near
  • Frostburg,
  • Maryland.
  • Though
  • serving
  • time,
  • Malcolm
  • has
  • an
  • ace
  • up
  • his
  • sleeve.
  • He
  • has
  • information
  • the
  • FBI
  • would
  • love
  • to
  • know.
  • Malcolm
  • would
  • love
  • to
  • tell
  • them.
  • But
  • everything
  • has
  • a
  • price—and
  • the
  • man
  • known
  • as
  • the
  • Racketeer
  • wasn’t
  • born
  • yesterday.Don’t
  • miss
  • John
  • Grisham’s
  • new
  • book,
  • THE
  • EXCHANGE:
  • AFTER
  • THE FIRM!
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