The Partner

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K.M. Harvin

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Audition sample by John Grisham

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
to say it was Patrick's Day in the papers would be an understatement. The Coast Morning daily ran nothing on the front page, but Patrick Lanigan, back from the dead, shouted the headline and thick black letters. Four stories with no less than six photos covered the front page and continued inside. He also played well on the front page in New Orleans, his hometown, as well as in Jackson and Mobile. Memphis, Birmingham, Baton Rouge and Atlanta also ran. Photos of the old Patrick with small front page stories throughout the morning to television vans kept a vigil outside his mother's home in Gretna, a New Orleans suburb. She had nothing to say and was protected by two vigorous ladies from down the street who took turns walking to the front door and glaring at the vultures. The press also congregated near the front of Trudy's home on point clear, but were kept at bay by Lance, who sat under a shade tree with a shotgun. He wore a tight black T shirt, black boots and trousers and looked very much the part of a successful mercenary. They yelled Bonnell questions at him. He only scowled. Trudy hid inside with Ashley Nicole, the six year old who had been kept home from school. They flocked to the law office downtown and waited on the sidewalk. They were denied entrance by two beefy security guards who had been hurriedly pressed into action. They loitered around the sheriff's office and cutters office, and anywhere else they might pick up a scent. Someone got a tip, and they gathered at the circuit clerk's office just in time to see Eva Tronto in his finest grey suit, hand the clerk a document which he described as a lawsuit the firm was filing against Patrick S. Lanigan. The firm wanted its money back, plain and simple, and Vitrano was perfectly willing to discuss this with the press for as long as he could hold an audience. It would prove to be a litigious morning. Trudy's lawyer leaked the earth, shattering news that at 10 a.m. he would stride over to the clerk's office in Mobile and file a petition for divorce. He performed this task admirably, though he had filed 1000 divorces. This was the first time he had done it in front of a TV news crew. He reluctantly agreed to be interviewed at length. The grounds were abandonment, and the petition alleged all sorts of heinous sins. He posed for some pictures in the hallway outside the clerk's office. Word spread quickly about yesterday's lawsuit, the one in which Northern Case Mutual sued Trudy Lanigan for the return of the 2.5 million. The court file was ransacked for details. The attorneys involved were contacted a leak here, a casual word there, and before long, a dozen reporters. New Trudy couldn't write a check for groceries without court approval.