The Associate - A Novel

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 is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.   Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.   When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.   John lives on a farm in central Virginia. Klappentext Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they'll use to ruin him-unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world's largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he'll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there's a catch. Kyle won't be working for the firm but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm-in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery may be able to escape alive. Chapter One 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...

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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

Product details

• Authors: John Grisham
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.09.2009
• EAN: 9780440243823
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24382-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 192 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage