The Firm - John Grisham's Bestselling Legal Thriller

The Firm is a must read Political thriller written bypages, even as Mitch is about to be interviewed and
John Grisham.the Managing partners are sizing him up in their
The Firm was John Grisham's second novel. It is fastchambers, one can get the tingling sensation. This
faced and keeps the readers hooked from thecarries through as the interview progresses and they
creepy first chapter to the vise tightening midhook him with their irresistible offers.
sections and on to the Take the money and runAs I read, I could feel Mitch's growing uneasiness
Finale... LOL.which he fails to express to his wife Abby, whereas
The storylineshe is herself feeling the same. But they both ignore
~~~~~~~~these warnings and Mitch goes ahead and joins The
The Firm is the story of Mitch, a brilliant lawyer andFirm.
about the firm which made him an offer he shouldGrisham's style of writing is unique, different. He
have refused... Mitch McDeere was at the top of hiskeeps the readers totally hooked but it is not the
class at Harvard law and he had his choice of thefast paced heady action that one gets used to in
best jobs in America. He was in great demand, andLudlum's or Foresythe's books. However the story as
he gets a job offer from a relatively small law firmit unfolds keeps you interested throughout.
called Bendini Lambert & Locke of Memphis, builtThe suspense is very well kept, just when I thought
by an aggressive tax lawyer named Anthony Bendini.that I had it all figured out, I realised that I was
Memphis was the last place Mitch and his wife Abigailwrong. It is a clever way of misleading the readers
wanted to be in, but, that was until he decided to gowhich only makes one all the more curious about the
for an interview with the Managing Partners of theplot. After a while ,even after you come to know
Firm; and then he began to change his opinions aboutexactly what the story is and the suspense is, you
the firm. He seriously thought that joining the firmare still as interested to know how it is going to end.
would be the best thing for him and his beautiful wifeThe best part about reading these suspense thrillers
Abby.is the Geographical knowledge that you gain. You get
The Firm leased him a BMW car, and paid off histo read about some really exotic places that one
study loans, they even arranged a mortgage for hismay never have heard of. I make it a point to look
new home and hired a decorator. But Mitch and Abbyup these places on the net and in most cases I find
began to develop uneasy feelings about the wholethe information given is authentic.
affair. There were early indications that the firm wasIn this novel I learnt about yet another place called
going to take over their lives.Cayman Islands consisting of 3 islands - Grand
They kept remembering Mitch's brother Ray's wordsCayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac and the
( Ray was doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail) - 'capital city is George Town.
You never get nothing for nothing'.A lot of action in the novel takes place in this place
Even as days pass with Mitch working for 20 hours aand in fact it is the focal point for the story. I have
day and hardly spending time with Abby uneasenoted it down in my list of places to visit before I die
grew. When Wayne Tarranne, special agent , FBI,:)
spoke to Mitch and warned him about the firm andThe Firm has been made into a successful film with
told him that there were suspicions about the recentTom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed
deaths of two of the firm's employees, Mitch beginsHarris, Holly Hunter and others in the lead.
to do some re-thinking.John Ray Grisham, formerly a criminal defense
Mitch is caught in a whirlpool and in more trouble fromattorney is a graduate of Mississippi State University
all sides when he begins to do some investigations ofand Ole Miss Law School, he has also served two
his own. He realises that he is caught betweenterms in the Mississippi House of representatives. His
unknown fears with no choice and that both his andnovels include A Time to Kill, The Client, The Appeal,
Abby's lives were in danger.The Associate - 17 fiction novels in all, most of them
Now they both had to use up all their mentalLegal fictions.
resources to stay one step ahead and moreMany of his books have been made into successful
importantly stay alive!films. He lives with his wife and two children on a
My Views about the book:farm near Oxford, where he generally works on a
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~new novel.
This story was a sizzler right from the opening