"The Appeal" chronicles the adventures of two lawyers honest and pure, the kind that we do not find it today, except in novels, who choose to stay with the widow Baker, a town of Bowmore, in the case brought against powerful companies Krane Chemical. The industry in question is accused of having poisoned the waters of the town and have killed dozens of people from cancer: the clash between then is honest and corrupt, corrupt and powerful, unscrupulous rich. The lawyers Wes and Mary Grace Payton link to this cause and give up everything to gain, large displacement cars, from luxury to life: to win in the first instance, but the bad guys pay politicians, judges, to get to their goal.
The author, as a writer in the South, was inspired by the realistic style of John Steinbeck, but the genre is suitable to turn into fiction for Hollywood: it's a real shame if perhaps the characters, including lawyers, should have more consistency psychological caricatures. While recalling the style of Steinbeck, the novel does not have the strength, the humanity of the author of fury, his raw descriptions of the poor, of losers, of the violent. The finish is amazing of course: it may surprise, disappoint or impress. To many readers, however, might not like the description of the U.S. judicial system. Anyway, we must recognize the ability to interest the reader of Grisham style with a fast, readable and attractive.
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