The client
Readers rate it 3.8 (373 on Hardcover)
482 pages · Released 2005 · Bantam Dell
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This is a legal thriller centered on an 11-year-old witness to suicide and a murder, involving organized crime and high-stakes legal conflict. While the protagonist is a child, the mature themes—suicide, murder, mob violence, and intense psychological pressure on a minor—make this more appropriate for older teens than the child protagonist's age might suggest. Grisham handles the legal and moral complexity thoughtfully, but the dark subject matter and threatening atmosphere are not suitable for younger readers.
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In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-a... In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.jgrisham.com/books/the-client/ ---------- Also contained in: - Novels: The Client / The Firm - Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 4 1993
Shelved under
- suicide
- Fifth Amendment
- lawyers
- FBI
- United States attorney
- legal thriller
- Organized crime
- USA
- Fiction
- Child witnesses
- Murder
- Brothers
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ISBN 9780385339087 · Bantam Dell