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Zusatztext “ GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY …The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down.” —Janet Maslin! The New York Times “Grisham’s confident style hasn’t changed! and THERE’S SUSPENSE APLENTY .” — People “Grisham makes it easy for us to keep flipping the pages… A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF THE BIG-TIME! BIG-BUCKS LEGAL WORLD .” —Patrick Anderson! The Washington Post “Throughout! Grisham unwinds the spool of his narrative at a MASTERFUL ! page-turning pace that pulls readers in and keeps them wanting more… The Associate is an absorbing thriller that's A FITTING FOLLOW-UP TO THE FIRM .” — The Boston Globe “ COMPULSIVELY READABLE …You're peering into a secret world of power and money. What more could you or any red-blooded American ask for?” — Time magazine “ A PAGE-TURNER …Kyle McAvoy recalls Mitch McDeere from Grisham's breakout novel The Firm . He's young! idealistic! handsome! a little too cocky for his own good! but a brilliant lawyer who gets pulled in over his head and given an education in how the world really works.” — The Los Angeles Times Informationen zum Autor John Grisham Klappentext If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want—even though it's a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains—from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle's "cubicle” at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country—and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham. 1 The rules of the New Haven Youth League required that each kid play at least ten minutes in each game. Exceptions were allowed for players who had upset their coaches by skipping practice or violating other rules. In such cases, a coach could file a report before the game and inform the scorekeeper that so-and-so wouldn't play much, if at all, because of some infraction. This was frowned on by the league; it was, after all, much more recreational than competitive. With four minutes left in the game, Coach Kyle looked down the bench, nodded at a somber and pouting little boy named Marquis, and said, "Do you want to play?" Without responding, Marquis walked to the scorers' table and waited for a whistle. His violations were -numerous--skipping practice, skipping school, bad grades, losing his uniform, foul language. In fact, after ten weeks and fifteen games, Marquis had broken every one of the few rules his coach tried to enforce. Coach Kyle had long since realized that any new rule would be immediately violated by his star, and for that reason he trimmed his list and fought the temptation to add new regulations. It wasn't working. Trying to control ten inner-city kids with a soft touch had put the Red Knights in last place in the 12 and Under division of the winter league. Marquis was only eleven, but clearly the best player on the court. He preferre...
