The Associate, John Grisham
The Associate, John Grisham
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The Associate

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Erik Singer

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/27/2009

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “compulsively readable” (Time) thriller featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world

“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.”—Los Angeles Times

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.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie

I was so disappointed in Grisham's latest work. He took more than half the book to create this wonderfully detailed plot and then three chapters to close the book. Three chapters in which he untwisted some of the elements of the plot, didn't resolve anything, and quit to early. I felt so unfulfilled......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Good books don't necessarily have to provide all the answers to every plot thread introduced into them. We want our characters to feel like they have lives beyond the confines of the printed page and that their story exists before, during and after the book we're reading. But a good book should at l......more

Goodreads review by Terrie

The most anti-climactic book ever. What happened to the Grisham I used to love?......more

Goodreads review by Karl

Fun reading.......more

Goodreads review by babyhippoface

I enjoyed this one quite a bit, but.... I got into the intrigue, especially once Kyle started attempting to turn the tables on Bennie & Nigel. But then came the ending. What is with Grisham these days? I didn't like the ending. I did not DESPISE the ending, as I did with Grisham's last book (The Appe......more

Quotes

“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.”—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

“Grisham’s fans live for his legal thrillers—and this one’s a classic story of a fledgling attorney pushed to his moral limits.”—USA Today

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