****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, *The Handmaid's Tale,* has become a modern classicβand now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.** More than fifteen years after the
The Testament
β Scribed by John Grisham
- Publisher
- Delta
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY: Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States.He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die.His heirs, to no one's surprise--especially Troy's--are circling like vultures.Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long.His second marriage in a shambles, and he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humor.Returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder.Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil.In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament.From the Hardcover edition.
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