


He decides to assign Nate O'Riley, a former high-powered litigator and recovering alcoholic, to find her. Josh Stafford, Troy's lawyer, confidant, and executor, must find Rachel, but he knows only that she is a missionary somewhere in Brazil. This will leave only enough money to each of his heirs to pay off their debts up until the day of his death, and leaves everything else to Rachel Lane, an illegitimate daughter that none of his family and associates know about. Minutes before his suicide, he shows his lawyer a new will that he would like carried out. In order to cut his family out of his will, he makes a fake will a few hours before his suicide, putting his family into that will. Troy Phelan, an eccentric, reclusive, ruthless billionaire businessman, commits suicide. It was published in hardcover by Doubleday on February 2, 1999. The Testament is an adventure story by American author John Grisham.
