This book is very
good in terms of character development and the way Grisham moves the story
forward.
The story starts
with a young law school graduate, Mitch McDeere who is being interviewed for his new job with
Bendini, Lambert and Locke, a small tax law firm based in Memphis. He bags a great job offer with
loads of perks/bonuses. He moves in with his wife Abby into the new apartment
and also gets a flashy new BMW, both provided by his new employer at lower
mortgage and on a new lease respectively.
Soon, couple of Mitch's colleagues die
in a “mysterious” accident. Mitch is intrigued to learn of a few more
unsettling truths about the firm. Mitch hires his own detective, Eddie Lomax to
investigate these discrepancies. Shortly, Lomax gets murdered and a FBI agent
starts hounding Mitch.
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The
plot quickly escalates to a cat-and-mouse chase between Mitch and his
employer's goons. Mitch has few confidantes besides Abby: his brother Ray
and Lomax's secretary, Tammy.
Grisham
paces the story nicely and the reader is sucked into the proceedings, just like
Mitch. The only downside is that I found it to be a little bit lengthy.Other
than this, the book scores on all fronts.
Recommended for fans of legal thrillers.
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