The Testament

Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab he knows returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament.. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trappings and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil

J Carter said One of the Best Books on the Market. This is the best book ever. I immediately shared it with my brother & his wife as my brother had been to the exact same places our hero went on down the Amazon River. My brother even contracted the same disease as our hero, and almost died also. This book is so good that I buy used copies & send them to soldiers overseas as it is a b. Huge estate leads to intrigue. This is not your usual John Grisham novel, even though ti involves a surprise bequest, and the search for the "lost" recipient, with opposition from people who thought they would inherit the very large estate. The main character searches through wet, alligator-infested swamp land to find a young woman who does not want to be found. T. W. Michael King, Ph.D. said EMOTIONALLY ELATING!. Great stories touch the concepts and relationships that many readers hold with personal identities particularly probing into the boundaries of personal psychology. Once again, John Grisham has accomplished just that: the story of the follies of people in their attempts at gaining privilege derived from the efforts of another who was

After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal, he encounters Rachel Lane, a pure-hearted missionary living with an indigenous tribe and carrying out "God's work." Rachel's grave dedication and kindness impress the jaded lawyer, so much that a nasty bout of dengue fever leads him to a vision that could change his life. --Rebekah Warren. Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan's money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. Will Nate get straight with Rachel's aid? Do the greedy heirs get theirs? What's the real legacy of a lifetime's work? The Testament is classic G