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Loved each and every part of this book. The bad guy offers Kyle a deal. In exchange for keeping the video and the potential rape allegation under wraps, Kyle must accept a position in New York City with the largest law firm in the world and steal documents related to a gigantic lawsuit between two defense contractors. High-stakes blackmail! The first few pages of this book are great, and I admit that I was immediately sucked into the plot.
The pace slows as the book progresses. The bad guys patiently wait for the chance to have Kyle make a move. Meanwhile, Kyle spends most of his time trying to figure out how to outsmart them while also being the hardest working first-year associate at the firm.
I don't know that the bad guys were actually super hard to outsmart. They actually seemed a little lame to me. When Kyle started his job, they demanded a look at his company-issued laptop and phone. He refused to do so, and they never bothered him about it again. Seems like pretty lame surveillance to me. They organize an operation to catch the bad guy when Kyle brings stolen files to him. But the bad guy somehow gets wind of it and disappears. They don't catch him. So, who was this bad guy?
Who was he working for? Why did they want the files? Where did he get the cell phone video? How did he know the FBI was coming for him? NONE of these questions get answered. Grisham suggests a bunch of possibilities, but I guess decides to let the reader ponder them eternally. It seems like maybe he wrote himself into a corner and said, "Ah, screw it, I can't figure this out either. The end. Many other readers are furious about this one. They can't figure out why he would just decide not to write the end of the book.
There won't be a sequel, because who would buy it? Most people seem to think that Grisham is so rich he doesn't really care about pleasing the reader anymore. Others are speculating that The Associate was gasp ghostwritten. I'm glad that I checked this out at the library. Some folks actually paid full cover price to read it. Feb 09, Jim rated it it was ok. This is the slowest Grisham book I've read -- and I've read them all.
It's tedious. It does not read like Grisham. There's almost no action until the end of the book, and then there's not much.
What a disappointment. Feb 26, Jeffrey rated it liked it Recommends it for: Grisham fans, legal thriller fans. Shelves: thriller , read-in This novel is not precisely a reworking of Grisham's famous first huge bestseller "The Firm", but some might jump to that conclusion because the setting is similar.
If you recall, in The Firm, the partners were mobsters. In this novel, the firm in question is merely an oppressive giant New York law firm, probably no different in its treatment of first year associates than many of the giant white shoe firms in New York now.
As an aside, Grisham is sure to throw in his usual barbs about the law pr This novel is not precisely a reworking of Grisham's famous first huge bestseller "The Firm", but some might jump to that conclusion because the setting is similar.
As an aside, Grisham is sure to throw in his usual barbs about the law practice, in this case having one of the more decent partners reveal to the young Kyle that he "estimates his billing", overcharges clients for meals and treats his young colleagues as chauffers, but these are only petty comments about the book.
The real story in this novel is that an unscrupulous spy involved in industrial espionage has found a way to make Kyle, follow his orders.
Kyle, the main character, is in his final year of law school at Yale. He is the son of a local lawyer who as is typical is lauded by Grisham , and is the prestigious editor of the Yale Law Review. As a second year law student he worked for the giant New York law firm, which has offered him a job, but Kyle has no interest in this position as he intends to join a smaller firm where he can help people. Kyle sees the video which appears to be condemning.
Bennie, the fake cop, tells Kyle that if he does what Bennie wants, Kyle will not be indicted and the video will not be released. What Bennie wants is for Kyle to provide him with sensitive material that is being held as an exhibit in a pending law suit about a supersonic jet. He orders Kyle to back out of his planned next law job and take a job with the large New York law firm. Of course, Kyle, the underdog ingeniously plans out a way to escape this nefarious scheme. The ending is a little too pat for me, but the fun in this book is following Kyle's adventures in spydom, his life and the life of his fellow first year students and the hell that is a first year associates lot in a huge law firm.
Except for the ending, this novel is not bad and frankly is a lot better than his baseball novel set in Italy. May 03, Stuart Fujisaki rated it did not like it. I love The Firm - the book, that is — the movie was stupid.
I return to it every two to three years. Somebody obviously grabbed me with the right hook to pick up this new Grisham story, but it sorely disappointed me. It turned out to be another example of lazy mega-successful author syndrome. This story had potential, so I kept reading. But somewhere around half way, I began to realize how this would eventually end up. Grisham started on a straight line and never veered off it all the way to the finish line, no twists, no turns, no satisfaction.
Grisham totally copped out on providing any kind of satisfying conclusion to the reader. Feb 24, S. Aruna rated it liked it Shelves: thriller-mystery.
I had mixed feeling about this book. It was as if Mr. Grisham wanted to recreate the thrilling suspense he had infused in the The Firm but it didn't quite work this time around. I did see some relevance to today's news stories of having men's pasts coming back to burn them often associated with the MeToo movment , so in a sense the book could be considered prescient.
I have to confess that although I am a fan of Grisham's books, I realize he is not exactly a wordsmith. The reason I'm a fan is b I had mixed feeling about this book. The reason I'm a fan is because many of his books contain social issues similar to a morality play. This aspect was not so strong in this book, so my enthusiasm was tempered. For a good book with a similar plot-line of a young adult being blackmailed into doing unethical, espionage-type things within a company, I recommend Joseph Finder's Paranoia Readers also enjoyed.
Videos About This Book. More videos About John Grisham. John Grisham. Born on February 8, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of "Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 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, 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 , he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation.
In , he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until One day at the DeSoto 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. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5, copy printing and published it in June That might have put an end to Grisham's hobby.
However, he had already begun his next book, and it would quickly turn that hobby into a new full-time career—and spark one of publishing's greatest success stories.
The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. The successes of The Pelican Brief, which hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Client, which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham's reputation as the master of the legal thriller.
Grisham's success even renewed interest in A Time to Kill, which was republished in hardcover by Doubleday and then in paperback by Dell. This time around, it was a bestseller. There are currently over million John Grisham books in print worldwide, which have been translated into 29 languages. The Innocent Man October marks his first foray into non-fiction. Grisham lives with his wife Renee and their two children Ty and Shea.
The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, VA. Grisham took time off from writing for several months in to return, after a five-year hiatus, to the courtroom. He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full-time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars.
Preparing his case with the same passion and dedication as his books' protagonists, Grisham successfully argued his clients' case, earning them a jur Books by John Grisham.
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A young woman, Elaine, claims that she was raped by four of his friends at a party so many years ago and there is a cellphone footage that implies the same in Bennie's possession. She does not know of the existence of this video as of now, but there is a high likelihood of her receiving a copy of it if Kyle does not comply with Bennie's wishes. Advertising Download Read Online.
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