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Cargando... The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller (edición 2022)por John Grisham (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The Dixie Mafia, Mississippi, childhood friendships gone awry. I trudged to the last 50 pages and gave up. I found the characters monochromatic, the plots were blah. Considering THE EXCHANGE, his book after this, to be so spectacular, I figured this was written during Covid and kind of reflects it. ( ) Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book. As a Grisham fan, I was excited to read this one (as I am to read every one of his books), although this book is not one of his typical legal thrillers. This book tells the story of two families – the Malcos and the Rudys. Both families are of Croatian heritage and both settled in Biloxi. Hugh Malco and Keith Rudy grew up, played baseball and graduated HS together. However, after graduation they separated but each followed their respective fathers’ footsteps and joined the family businesses. Hugh joined his dad, Lance, running nightclubs along the “Strip” which also offered illegal gambling, prostitution and drug dealing. Keith joined his dad, Jesse, at his law firm which attempted to take down all illegal establishments and the bosses that control them. This is a slow burn but you know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. There isn’t a lot of “mystery” to this story and not a lot of dialogue. The story starts to pick up when it gets to the court proceedings tied to Jesse’s attempts to clean up the city. The book begins with a LOT of backstory and character development. So much so that I wondered how it all tied in but it did become apparent as the book progressed. It's been six years since I've read anything from John Grisham, and I don't remember having had quite this reaction to his work before. It was only my general weariness with "legal thrillers" that caused me to stop reading Grisham in the first place, so this is the first time I've been so underwhelmed by one of his books. The Boys from Biloxi strikes me as nothing more, really, than a boilerplate rehashing of a basic plot line I've read way too many times already. This is the story of two very different families who live on Mississippi's Gulf Coast where boys from each family bond and become fast friends over their shared expertise at youth baseball. But of course, the boys are destined to take very different courses in life because one is the son of a crime boss who is the dominant vice provider in Biloxi, and the other is the son of a family whose patriarch dedicates his life to fighting exactly that type of crime. Each family, by definition, becomes the mortal enemy of the other. Keith Rudy goes to law school and follows closely in his father's crime-fighting shoes; Hugh Malco, on the other hand, becomes his father's right-hand man, especially after the old man gets sentenced to Parchman, and follows closely in his father's brutal methods of running a crime syndicate. The clash between Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco is inevitable, and it will prove to be deadly. So with a feel to it of "been there, done that," The Boys from Biloxi is both a coming-of-age novel and a very long, multi-generational family saga (454 pages in the edition I read) that still manages to feel rushed at times. There is a whole lot of "telling" in summary fashion of major plot shifts; short chapters of six or seven pages during which entire crimes are committed and solved; and poorly developed characters that appear over and over again without ever seeming to be all that real despite the numerous opportunities Grisham has to flesh them out. There is, in fact, so much "telling" going on and so little "showing" that the novel strikes me as more of a fully fleshed outline for a short series of novels rather than itself being one self-contained novel. But The Boys from Biloxi kept me reading for 454 pages, and for that reason alone I'm going to call this a three-star book. Why have I waited so long to read a John Grisham?!? I was thoroughly engrossed in this legal thriller and it wasn't as "literary" or "legally" as I thought it might be. It was very straightforward and the plot kept me engaged. Biloxi wasn't just known for it's coastal beauty and fishing, it was also known for its vices and corruption. The police and judges were in bed with the mobsters; taking cuts from the illegal drinking, gambling, and prostitution. Two young boys were raised in this environment and they couldn't lead different lives; once friends and athletes the two grow apart after high school and find themselves at opposite sides. One will become a lawyer who idealizes his father and the work he is doing to clean up Biloxi; the other a thug and mobster, one who also idolizes his father and the "empire" he built. Fast paced, I liked how this story spans over decades. The city of Biloxi also feels like a character. I definitely need to read more Grisham! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Dos amigos de la infancia. Dos familias. Dos lados opuestos de la ley. Un apasionante thriller en el que el maestro Grisham lleva su relato a otro nivel, con personajes memorables y giros inesperados que te harn devorar los captulos hasta su asombroso final. Desde hace casi un siglo, Biloxi es conocida por sus playas, complejos tursticos e industria pesquera. Pero tambin tiene un lado oscuro. Esta ciudad de Mississippi es adems famosa por el crimen y la corrupcin: desde el juego, la prostitucin y el contrabando hasta el narcotrfico y los asesinatos a manos de sicarios. Un pequeo grupo controla la actividad criminal y se rumorea que muchos de ellos son miembros de la mafia del sur, conocida como mafia Dixie. Keith Rudy y Hugh Malco, amigos de la infancia e hijos de familias inmigrantes, crecieron en Biloxi durante los aos sesenta, hasta que en la adolescencia sus vidas siguieron direcciones diferentes. El padre de Keith se convirti en un legendario fiscal decidido a limpiar la costa. El de Hugh lleg a ser el jefe de la red criminal clandestina de Biloxi. Keith decidi estudiar Derecho y seguir los pasos de su padre. Hugh prefiri trabajar en los clubes nocturnos del suyo. Las dos familias se dirigen directas hacia un decisivo enfrentamiento, que tendr lugar en un tribunal... y en la que la vida de todos estar en la cuerda floja. La crtica ha dicho... John Grisham es uno de los mejores escritores que tenemos en Estados Unidos en estos momentos. The New York Times Invita a compararla con la triloga de El Padrino recorre dos generaciones y variasdcadas de la posguerra, y tiene adems un variado conjunto de personajes y una energa irresistible. Sunday Times Esta historia atraviesa medio siglo y acaba inevitablemente con un enfrentamiento en el tribunal. Una lectura reveladora, fascinante y moralmente compleja. Mail on Sunday Como siempre, Grisham presenta increbles giros inesperados a medida que el suspense se intensifica. Su excepcional forma de narrar deja al lector con ganas de que la novela no termine nunca. Grisham ha vendido ms de trescientos millones de ejemplares y este libro es la prueba de cmo lo ha logrado. Daily Mail Un thriller legal al que se une un fascinante enfrentamiento en los tribunales y que es adems mucho ms que eso. Una saga familiar y una exploracin de la zona gris entre el bien absoluto y la maldad absoluta que a veces recuerda a una novela de Don Winslow. Grisham ha creado aqu algunos de sus personajes ms memorables. Booklist Grisham vuelve a dar en el clavo con un thriller que tiene un gran trasfondo humano. Peterborough Telegraph No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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