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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385416342

ISBN-139780385416344

eBay Product ID (ePID)905629

Product Key Features

Book TitleFirm : a Novel

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1991

TopicThrillers / Crime, Thrillers / Legal, Thrillers / Suspense, Legal, Mystery & Detective / General

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Grisham

Book SeriesThe Firm Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight25.3 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN90-003945

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Taut, fast and relentless... A ride worth taking." -- San Francisco Chronicle. "Keeps the reader hooked... From the creepy first chapters... to the vise-tightening midsection and on to the take-the money-and-run finale." -- The Wall Street Journal. "Irresistable... seizes the reader on the opening page and propels him through 400 more." -- Peter Prescott,Newsweek., "Taut, fast and relentless... A ride worth taking." -- San Francisco Chronicle . "Keeps the reader hooked... From the creepy first chapters... to the vise-tightening midsection and on to the take-the money-and-run finale." -- The Wall Street Journal . "Irresistable... seizes the reader on the opening page and propels him through 400 more." -- Peter Prescott, Newsweek .

Series Volume Number1

Synopsis#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER - The iconic legal thriller that launched the career of America's favorite storyteller, hailed as "an absolute master" ( The Washington Post ) "[An] ingenious man-in-the-middle thriller." --Entertainment Weekly Mitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife, Abby, move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life: they're young, happy, and on the fast track. Or so they think. Soon, though, Mitch senses trouble: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the firm's management is overly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the firm, even for a company with billionaire clients, are more than a little stringent. Then, suddenly, Mitch's vague suspicions come to life. The FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Now Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place. The FBI will bust him if he doesn't cooperate, and the firm will kill him if he does. There's no way out. Or is there? The story continues in The Exchange, the "breathtaking" ( The Wall Street Journal ) sequel to The Firm !, At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he hadhis choice of the best in America. He made a deadlymistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on withBendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought heand his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way.The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his schoolloans, arranged a mortgage and hired him adecorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what hisbrother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a Tennesseejail -- already knew. You never get nothing fornothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch'sfirm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between arock and a hard place, with no choice -- if hewants to live.", #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER * The iconic legal thriller that launched the career of America's favorite storyteller, hailed as "an absolute master" ( The Washington Post ) "[An] ingenious man-in-the-middle thriller." --Entertainment Weekly Mitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife, Abby, move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life: they're young, happy, and on the fast track. Or so they think. Soon, though, Mitch senses trouble: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the firm's management is overly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the firm, even for a company with billionaire clients, are more than a little stringent. Then, suddenly, Mitch's vague suspicions come to life. The FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Now Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place. The FBI will bust him if he doesn't cooperate, and the firm will kill him if he does. There's no way out. Or is there? The story continues in The Exchange, the "breathtaking" ( The Wall Street Journal ) sequel to The Firm !

LC Classification NumberPS3557.R5355F57 1991