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The story:
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake.
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife,
Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired
him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a
Tennessee jail -- already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's
firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if he wants to
live.
Extract from book:
"THE SENIOR PARTNER studied the résumé for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about
Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was
hungry; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and that was mandatory. The firm had never hired
an unmarried lawyer, and it frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was
in the contract. He had a degree in accounting, passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be
a tax lawyer, which of course was a requirement with a tax firm. He was white, and the firm had never hired a
black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms
solicited, and hired blacks. This firm recruited, and remained lily white. Plus, the firm was in Memphis, of
all places, and the top blacks wanted New York or Washington or Chicago. McDeere was a male, and there were
no women in the firm. That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one
grad from Harvard, who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation. She lasted four turbulent years and
was killed in a car wreck."
About the author:
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, specializing
in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of
Representatives and served until 1990.
One day at the Dessoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape
victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered
her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to
work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many
publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and
published it in June 1988.
Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are
The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner,
The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, and
The King of Torts) and all of them have become bestsellers, leading Publishers Weekly to declare him
"the bestselling novelist of the 90s" in a January 1998 profile.
Buchdaten:
THE FIRM by John Grisham
Sprache: Englisch
Broschiert - 512 Seiten - Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum: 1. Juni 1996
ISBN: 044021145X
Preis: € 7,49
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