The Partner by John Grisham published 1997

The partner is a mystery/thriller set in Brazil and the United States written by author John Grisham.

The book starts out when a team of inspectors are watching a man named Danilo Silva. Or at least that's his cover name. His name is actually Patrick Lanigan, a young partner of a law firm that shut down. Patrick was to have supposedly died in a burning car, but it is said that he was watching his own funeral. After Patrick's death a large sum of money was stolen from the firm's account. A team of private detectives were summoned to solve this strange occurrence. After four years they were lead to Rio, a town in Brazil, and have been following Danilo Silva who they believe is actually Patrick (he had plastic surgery...). An American detecive, Guy, and a Brazilian detecive, Osmar, are operating the investigation under Stephano's orders. Stephano owns the private detective agency in Washington.

Obviously there is going to be a lot more to this investigation seeing how this is the beginning of the book. I'm suspecting Danilo is working with someone else.

This book, all though not beautifully written, keeps the reader engaged. He paces the book smoothly and swiftly and does not bore you with too many details. It reminds me of a rugged 1950's detective thriller. The detectives call Danilo "Danny Boy" which seems very cliche. At first I wasn't even sure when this book was set until they mentioned computers.