A paperback copy of John Grisham’s novel “A Time to Kill” will set you back less than $10. The DVD of the film will cost a few bucks more. The new adaptation on Broadway? Tickets at the box office start at $70.
“I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It’s a long story.” It’s the perfect opening line for a brand-new John Grisham book. “The Racketeer” (Doubleday, New York, 2012, 340 pages) is the lawyer-turned-writer’s 25th novel, and it’s a legal thriller, the kind of book that Grisham might as well have invented, but this is one he turns inside out.
At the turn of the millennium and at the height of his commercial success, John Grisham did something strange. The best-selling author best known for courtroom thrillers—some of which had been adapted into motion pictures—decided he wanted to write something aside from legal thrillers. Thus he tried his hand at other genres, some of them successful and others not.
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