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The Rooster Bar

The explosive crime thriller from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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 'The Best Thriller Writer Alive' Ken Follett

John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that shouldn't exist.

Law students Mark, Todd and Zola wanted to change the world - to make it a better place. But these days these three disillusioned friends spend a lot of time hanging out in The Rooster Bar, the place where Todd serves drinks. As third-year students, they realise they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specialising in student loans, the three realise they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.

So they begin plotting a way out. Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they have to leave law school, pretend they are qualified and go into battle with a billionaire and the FBI . . .

Ingenious, immersive and page-turning, The Rooster Bar is a John Grisham legal thriller bar none.

(P)2017 Random House Audio©2017 Belfry Holdings, Inc Crime Thrillers Law School Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Law Crime Fiction Banking Student

Critic reviews

The reason [Grisham is] so popular is because he's so good. If anything, he may be America's most underrated best selling author, because all he does is write compelling, page-turning fiction, book after book, year after year (Michael Levin, New York Times bestselling author)
The multi-layered plot is inventively sustained and, as always with Grisham, the scintillating storytelling serves to highlight a substantial issue: the ruinous repercussions of graduate debt and the scandal of "diploma mill" colleges
A wild, hard-to-put-down romp
Smartly told . . . Bravo to Grisham for using his star power to shine another spotlight on an all-too-real problem in this gratifying and all-too-real book
Grisham writes in such an inventive spirit . . . [a] buoyant, mischievous thriller . . . THE ROOSTER BAR is written with the same verve Grisham brought to this summer's CAMINO ISLAND with the same sense that this reliable best-selling author is feeling real pleasure, and not just obligation, in delivering his work
Good idea; good, vengeful execution
Engrossing
All stars
Most relevant
Enjoyed this book, a real page turner. I was never bored; and always wanted to hear the next chapter.

Another good informative BOOK BY; JOHN GRISHAM

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A pleasant book but not up there with his earlier work in my opinion, the performance is good and I preferred this book to the last Grisham (Camino Island) effort but I do miss the old stories, maybe it's just nostalgia.

Good but not his best

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I'm a fan of John Grisham and this is among his best. You must give this a try even if it's your first John Grisham book you will be hooked.

Another Epic story

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High expectations given the author were heightened at the start leading to the first death. However, it went down hill from there. A number of courtroom plot developments fizzled out. Much of suspense and "will they get caught" risks typical of John Grisham's novels did not build to any extent. The main characters felt thin and with one exception did not lead you to want them to "get away with it". I was not worried about the risks of them getting caught - it never seemed a much of a risk and in the end I did not care if they ended badly. The sudden end was unsatisfactory and felt like a "times up" move to put this poor story down as quickly as possible.

Rooster went all limp.

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Not Grishams usual topic (lawyers) but instead focuses on law students. A great yarn nonetheless and I do recommend it. The narrator is excellent- he has real range and sensitivity

A good listen - a bit alternative to his usual

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