The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized piece of work, and in 1993, was made into a film starring Tom Cruise. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was successful but did not bring the author the attention of the general public.
Story: Mitch McDeere is young, bright, keen, fresh out of law-school, and “hungry”—which is the descriptive term bandied about ad-nauseum at the beginning of the book. He is being head-hunted by several firms who wish to begin his career as a lawyer, but the one that ends up snaring his interest is Bendini, Lambert and Locke, a small firm in Memphis. They put an offer on the table he can’t refuse; having been poor for his whole life, it looks like everything is about to turn around for him and his wife, Abby. They get a new car, a low interest mortgage, and he starts on an extremely high salary with lots of bonuses. And life is good.
But is it? Mitch has to work extra, extra hard for his money, and he is determined to be the best. Abby makes friends with the wife of one of the partners, and starts to get a bad feeling about “the firm”’s policies on child rearing and women working; encouraged and discouraged respectively. When Mitch begins work, two of the lawyers at the firm are killed in a boating accident. Mitch quickly discovers the two unfortunate lawyers had dealings with the FBI... and they weren’t the only two. They also weren’t the only two fatal accidents. Then, Mitch is approached by the FBI. The firm isn’t all it seems, and they want his help. Suddenly, Mitch and Abby are playing a dangerous game. They don’t know who to trust, and what they do know is more than enough to get them killed...
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