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Review:Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn't synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law
firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came out of
nowhere--Oxford, Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer--and quickly catapulted to the top of the
bestseller list, with good reason. Mitch McDeere, the appealing hero, is a poor kid whose only assets are a first-class
mind, a Harvard law degree, and a beautiful, loving wife. When a Memphis law firm makes him an offer he really can't
refuse, he trades his old Nissan for a new BMW, his cramped apartment for a house in...
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Review:This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his
child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three
years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and
his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang,
wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to
boost h...
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Review:Michael Beck (The Golden Seal, Xanadu), who seems to be making a career out of reading books on audio (A Time to
Kill, The Runaway Jury), has returned with John Grisham's The Rainmaker, bringing the backwoods of Tennessee's
legal world to life. His sultry, southern drawl animates the world of Rudy Baylor, an out-of-luck, budding lawyer who
has more things going against him than bedraggled, disaster-magnet Joe from Lil' Abner. The law firm that hired
Baylor was gobbled up by a larger firm just three weeks before his graduation, and now he has no job and no chance
of finding one. To make matters worse, when he gets home there's an eviction notice, a...
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