- Fiction, Legal stories, Lawyers, Literature
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he has left is the law.Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 413
- Publisher
- Bruna, Zhi Ku, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 59
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9789022995594
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“THE MAN with the rubber boots stepped into the elevator behind me, but I didn't see him at first.”
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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