This was the first Grisham book I ever read, and it got me hooked. I had seen some of the film before without really knowing who wrote it, so I decided to buy the book and read it. The hero of the story is a young man named Mitch McDeere who is fresh out of law school at Harvard. He graduated third in his class and job offers are pouring in from all over the country. Huge firms in Washington and New York will pay him handsomely, but one small firm in Memphis caught his attention with a new BMW, $80, 000 a year and hundreads of other perks he had only dreampt about. After a while, the funerals, the FBI agents and the sinister happenings of the firm in the Cayman islands catch up with him. The story, after numerous twists and turn reaches a climax in Florida, when it comes to the crunch, who is cleverer, the FBI, State police and Mob put together, or Mitch McDeere a 24 year old lawyer. Have a guess.
The book certainly is very gripping and there is always a sense and indication of worse things to come. For example, on Mitch’s first day with the firm, he attends the funeral of two men who tried what he is about to try. At first Grisham give us the impression that the firm is warm and friendly but he cleverly changes this perception as the book continues by having them lie and blackmail Mitch. The firm is an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone.