The partner (Grisham)

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The partner (original title: The Partner ) is a 1997 Doubleday published novel ( thriller ) by the American author John Grisham . In 1998 the German hardcover edition was published by Heyne Verlag . The paperback was published in 1999 , also by Heyne Verlag.

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The lawyer Patrick Lanigan has staged his own death, in which he allegedly threw a cliff down to the car and burned the car. He goes into hiding until after his funeral service, cheating on his law firm partners and a client for $ 90 million, with which he travels to Brazil . The betrayed do not want to let him get away scot-free and put the private detective Jack Stephano on him, who should definitely get the money back. After more than four years, Lanigan, who was hiding as Danilo Silva in Ponta Porã, Brazil, is found and tortured by Stephano's men in order to squeeze out the location of the missing money.

Lanigan, however, has given his Brazilian friend Eva Miranda, also a lawyer, detailed instructions. Knowing that Stephano would find him sooner or later, if he should disappear, she should inform the FBI that Stephano has found him. The FBI forces Stephano to turn Lanigan over to the FBI. However, through the torture, he was able to find out that Lanigan does not know where the money is, only Eva Miranda has this knowledge. While Stephano's men search for Miranda, Lanigan is nursed back to health in a military hospital. Meanwhile, he is charged with fraud and murder, an unidentifiable corpse was found in his burned car.

From the hospital, Lanigan calls a lawyer who is in contact with Eva Miranda, who flies all over the world under a different name in order to evade Stephano's influence. The money the client was awarded by Lanigan's former law firm and which Lanigan eventually stole was from a lawsuit awarded to the client through falsified evidence. Lanigan has gathered all the evidence and, with the help of his lawyer and girlfriend, has it played out little by little. Through a clever deal with the public prosecutor's office, he agrees to repay the money, but demands to keep most of the interest to himself. Worried about not getting the money at all, she agrees to the deal, also believing that Lanigan will still be convicted of murder and that he will therefore still get his sentence. But he can also reject this accusation. In the car was an old man Lanigan knew and after whose natural death he hid the body in the car. He had exchanged the corpse for stones during a lay-out, of which he was the only guest. After the grave has been opened and his claim has been proven, he is acquitted of the charge of murder and ultimately only convicted of desecrating a corpse without having to go to prison. Lanigan is released, but finds out that this time he was betrayed by his girlfriend, who disappeared with the rest of the money. The book ends with Lanigan unable to pay his lawyer the outstanding fee, but still has the hope that Miranda will come back.

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