CALICO JOE BY JOHN GRISHAM – EXPRESS.CO.UK

Sunday April 15,2012 -

By Jeffery Taylor

I CANNOT help smiling when I start a new John Grisham.

The author of The Firm has sold almost 300 million legal thrillers and they often open with convincing counterarguments to the main thrust of the plot. The same principle applies to Calico Joe, which takes for its theme Grisham’s second passion, baseball.

As this is Grisham, you hope that, after the early deluge of baseball lore, the closing pages will reveal a pristine, recognisable and deeply moving human truth. You will not be disappointed.

John Grisham’s ‘Calico Joe’

By Steven V. Roberts, Published: April 7

John Grisham’s legal thrillers are dense and hefty, full of twists and turns and tension. His latest novel, “Calico Joe,” is not like that at all. It’s a sweet, simple story, a fable really. And like all fables, it has a moral: Good can come out of evil; it’s never too late to confess your sins and seek forgiveness.