The Partner

The Partner by John Grisham doesn't have much to recommend it, other than the author's skill to tell a far-fetched way which is well paced rather than believable. The eponymous partner, Patrick Lanigan, is on the run after stealing millions of dollars from his corrupt law firm. There are, admittedly, better ways to tackle a midlife crisis than the one Lanigan has chosen when he found out that his partners were plotting against him, that his wife was cheating on him and his kid was not really his, but those ways - divorce, a new job, etc. - would not have been much fun in a legal thriller and probably would not have earned Grisham a ton of money.