The Brethren, by John Grisham
Eh
(Review posted 3 Sep 2005 21:31:38)

Grisham's another one of those authors who's so ubiquitous that I occasionally read one of his novels more or less by accident, and then generally regret it. As is my vague recollection of other Grisham novels that I've read, or at least started, this one had a certain number of plot twists and nominal suspense and stuff, but since none of the major characters were particularly plausible or sympathetic, I didn't care about any of it. The only characters I found I cared about at all were sufficiently minor that Grisham didn't care about them, and they were either killed or allowed to get safely offstage, more or less at random.

So yeah. Better things to do with one's time.

(Just as a reminder to myself, this is the one with the three judges in a minimum-security federal prison who start up a postal blackmail operation, and the secretly CIA-backed Presidential candidate whose rapid rise accidentally intersects with the judges' plot, and more or less the obvious and expected things happen from there on. Don't accidentally read it again!)