TY - BOOK AU - Grisham, John TI - The whistler: a novel SN - 9781101967683 U1 - FIC G869 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Judges KW - Corrupt practices KW - Fiction KW - Judicial corruption KW - Native American casinos KW - Legal investigation KW - Florida N2 - The Whistler follows Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She gets drawn into the most dangerous case of her career when a disbarred lawyer reports that a corrupt judge is secretly working with organized crime. The judge is allegedly connected to a massive land and casino scam, laundering millions of dollars through bribes and racketeering. Lacy and her partner Hugo begin investigating the case and uncover a system of judicial corruption, Native American casino fraud, and a mysterious figure known only as “The Whistler”—the one who knows the most, and says the least. As they dig deeper, the danger escalates—and the corruption proves more entrenched than they ever imagined ER -