Monday, November 2, 2026
The French Illusion is John Grisham's CIA thriller, a Paris honeymoon kidnapping that draws in the FBI, French intelligence and a young lawyer recruited as bait. Fast, twisty crime fiction from a legal-thriller master on new ground, and the first book in a planned series.
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