The Appeal by John Grisham

After fighting with a book of Carlos Fuentes' (and its winning), I needed something easy to read. John Grisham to the rescue. This book was about a chemical company who loses a major personal injury case and decides to fund the campaign of a supreme court judge who will guarantee their winning on appeal. The concept was fun to follow and I enjoyed reading the back-room machinations that were necessary to craft his campaign.

However, I became disintereted in the story about 2/3 of the way and did not even really care who won the case in the end. Grisham let his desire to make a political statement come at the cost of the storytelling.