Novel; The Firm by John Grisham

The Firm by John Grisham
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Paperback, Penguin Readers, 560 pages
Published February 15th 2000 by Addison Wesley Publishing Company (first published 1991)
ISBN 0582418275 (ISBN13: 9780582418271)
edition language English
original title The Firm
url http://www.jgrisham.com/the-firm/ charactersMitch McDeere
setting Memphis, Tennessee, 1991 (United States) Tennessee (United States)

Mitchell McDeere, raised in the coal-mining region of rural Kentucky, has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. He's young. He's bright. He's ambitious. Mitch could have the pick of the big firms in New York and Chicago, but he's chosen the Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke. They're selective. They pay outrageous salaries. They have a turnover rate of zero. And Mitch is about to find out why.Several events fuel Mitch's growing suspicions: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the senior partners seem unduly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the office are, even for a company with billionaire clients, more than a little extreme. Then Mitch makes an explosive discovery: The firm is owned and operated by the most powerful organized crime family in Chicago. Even as Mitch discovers the truth, he finds himself caught between the FBI, who wants an informant inside the firm, and the firm itself, which will make him a very rich man—or a very dead one

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