Brian and Barbara review the book The Exchange by John Grisham, number one on the November 5 and November 12, 2023, New York Times hardcover fiction lists.

Attorney Mitch McDeere, having escaped a mob-corrupted Memphis law firm at the end of author James Grisham’s 1991 breakthrough novel The Firm, resurfaces fifteen years later in Manhattan, now a junior partner in the largest international law firm in the world. Mitch returns to Memphis to seek a reprieve for a convicted killer, then heads overseas to lead a team suing the erratic Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for failure to pay a billion-dollar construction bill. A young member of Mitch’s team is kidnapped by terrorists, and the pressure on Mitch to get her back builds to the breaking point when his wife Abby is pulled into the ransom negotiations.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it--or re-gift it!

Episode 17 of bestseller, recorded on 12/31/2023.