Although I haven't read anything by him in several years, John Grisham remains one of the more well known American authors. Most of his legal thrillers are fantastic. Yet there hasn't been an adaptation of one of his novels since 2004's Christmas With the Kranks. Ouch. Well that may be about to change.
"THR" reveals that Grisham's latest novel "The Racketeer" will soon be made into a feature film care of director Daniel Espinosa (Safe House). Here's a brief synopsis:
"Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered.
Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.
Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland.
On paper, Malcolm’s situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied.
What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price—especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. And the Racketeer wasn’t born yesterday.."
Sounds intriguing. There aren't enough good legal thrillers on screen anymore, and if you're going to go to the well, you could do worse than John Grisham. Personally I'd love to see Hollywood make Greg Iles' "The Quiet Game" into a film but in the meantime this will have to suffice.
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