Where is the ending?

For the second time running, Grisham's standard has dropped! After delivering amazing books like 'The Firm' & 'The Runaway Jury', he lets all of his fans down with 'The Associate'. His last book 'The Appeal' did not set the world on fire with its ending, but having dragged the reader through 485 pages of a Law firm associate's daily life, it would have been nice to see a proper ENDING!!!

Okay, here's the short version.

*Law student Kyle messes up in college. You know, the usual booze, drugs, sex etc.
*Girl accuses Kyle+4 others of rape.
*All is forgotten until Kyle sets foot in the world's largest law firm.
*Bad guys blackmail Kyle in to revealing secrets about a particular case.
*Video of alleged rape surfaces. Kyle pisses in his pants.
*Kyle agrees to spy for the bad guys.
*Kyle's fellow rapist friends are contacted. One dude Baxter has 75 pages detailing his tryst with alcohol & his recovery at Alcoholics Anonymous!!! Only to get shot by the bad guys when he tries to apologise to the rape victim. Point is it could have easily been a drunk Baxter getting shot. Nobody really cares! Unless you want a gloomy account of what it is to be an alcoholic. What did he get for staiyng sober? A bullet to the back of his head.
*Kyle kisses ass, gets assigned to the case.
*Kyle sleeps with a colleague. Mandatory sex scene is described.
*Kyle drives his boss through town. For 12 long pages would you believe it?
*Kyle acquires balls of steel & confesses to a lawyer who hooks him up with the FBI.
*FBI hatches a plan to catch the bad guys.
*Bad guys give Kyle high tech gadgets to transfer sensitive data.
*Bad guys are supposedly waiting in a hotel room to collect the data. FBI shows up to find the room empty & goons missing.
*Kyle is taken in to protective custody. A month passes & his balls receive a buffing & he proclaims that the FBI wouldn't be able to catch the bad guy.
*Kyle proclaims that he is fearless & walks away in to the big bad world alone.
*Story over.

NOW, tell me, where the hell is the ENDING????!!!! Did I just go through 500 odd pages to find out that they don't catch the bad guys?? I know real life is like this, but who the hell wants Grisham to write about real life??? Oh I did learn lots of laws, rental rates in New York, cost of a properly stitched suit & the difference between Jimmy Choo & Prada shoes!!!

Maybe I've been watching too many action movies of late, but I am sure Vijayakanth would have thought of and executed at least 34 different ways of catching the bad guys!

Am off to read 'The Righteous Men' by Sam Bourne. Hope it is worth all the wait & effort.