The Associate - Softcover

Grisham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440243823 ISBN 13: 9780440243823

Publisher: Anchor Books, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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

Book Description:

The latest legal thriller from international number one bestselling author John Grisham

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0440243823
• ISBN 13: 9780440243823
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 464