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John Grisham
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  1. ALSO BY JOHN GRISHAM
  2. Contents
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. THE HEIST
  5. 1.
  6. 2.
  7. 3.
  8. 4.
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  10. 6.
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  26. CHAPTER TWO
  27. THE DEALER
  28. 1.
  29. 2.
  30. 3.
  31. 4.
  32. 5.
  33. 6.
  34. 7.
  35. 8.
  36. CHAPTER THREE
  37. THE RECRUIT
  38. 1.
  39. 2.
  40. 3.
  41. 4.
  42. 5.
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  44. 7.
  45. 8.
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  48. CHAPTER FOUR
  49. THE BEACHCOMBER
  50. 1.
  51. 2.
  52. 3.
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  57. 8.
  58. CHAPTER FIVE
  59. THE FACILITATOR
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  62. 3.
  63. 4.
  64. 5.
  65. CHAPTER SIX
  66. THE FICTION
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  78. 12.
  79. 13.
  80. 14.
  81. CHAPTER SEVEN
  82. THE WEEKEND GIRL
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  102. CHAPTER EIGHT
  103. THE DELIVERY
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  114. 11.
  115. EPILOGUE
  116. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  117. What’s next on your reading list?
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ALSO BY JOHN GRISHAM

A Time to Kill

The Firm

The Pelican Brief

The Client

The Chamber

The Rainmaker

The Runaway Jury

The Partner

The Street Lawyer

The Testament

The Brethren

A Painted House

Skipping Christmas

The Summons

The King of Torts

Bleachers

The Last Juror

The Broker

The Innocent Man

Playing for Pizza

The Appeal

The Associate

Ford County

The Confession

The Litigators

Calico Joe

The Racketeer

Sycamore Row

Gray Mountain

Rogue Lawyer

The Whistler

The Theodore Boone Books

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

Theodore Boone: The Abduction

Theodore Boone: The Accused

Theodore Boone: The Activist

Theodore Boone: The Fugitive

Theodore Boone: The Scandal

John Grisham Camino Island Doubleday New York London Toronto Sydney AucklandJohn Grisham Camino Island Doubleday New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Belfry Holdings, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.doubleday.com

DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Cover design by John Fontana

Cover photograph by Birgit Tyrrell/Arcangel Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress.

Hardcover ISBN 9780385543026

Ebook ISBN 9780385543057

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Contents

Cover

Also by John Grisham

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter One: The Heist

Chapter Two: The Dealer

Chapter Three: The Recruit

Chapter Four: The Beachcomber

Chapter Five: The Facilitator

Chapter Six: The Fiction

Chapter Seven: The Weekend Girl

Chapter Eight: The Delivery

Epilogue

Author’s Note

TO RENÉE

Thanks for the story

CHAPTER ONE

THE HEIST

1.

The imposter borrowed the name of Neville Manchin, an actual professor of American literature at Portland State and soon-to-be doctoral student at Stanford. In his letter, on perfectly forged college stationery, “Professor Manchin” claimed to be a budding scholar of F. Scott Fitzgerald and was keen to see the great writer’s “manuscripts and papers” during a forthcoming trip to the East Coast. The letter was addressed to Dr. Jeffrey Brown, Director of Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University. It arrived with a few others, was duly sorted and passed along, and eventually landed on the desk of Ed Folk, a career junior librarian whose task, among several other monotonous ones, was to verify the credentials of the person who wrote the letter.

Ed received several of these letters each week, all in many ways the same, all from self-proclaimed Fitzgerald buffs and experts, and even from the occasional true scholar. In the previous calendar year, Ed had cleared and logged in 190 of these people through the library. They came from all over the world and arrived wide-eyed and humbled, like pilgrims before a shrine. In his thirty-four years at the same desk, Ed had processed all of them. And, they were not going away. F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to fascinate. The traffic was as heavy now as it had been three decades earlier. These days, though, Ed was wondering what could possibly be left of the great writer’s life that had not been pored over, studied at great length, and written about. Not long ago, a true scholar told Ed that there were now at least a hundred books and over ten thousand published academic articles on Fitzgerald the man, the writer, his works, and his crazy wife.