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Loading... The Clientby John Grisham
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I first read this years ago. Although the premise is intriguing, the details of the plot are too improbable to suit Grisham's prosaic style. It is an interesting read in the moment of reading but it provoked no further thought and left me with no questions. (  ) TheoClarke | Nov 17, 2009 |  Stories about children getting wrapped up in adult affairs aren't usually my plot type of choice, but this one was good. 11-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the suicide of a mafia lawyer, who reveals a very important secret to him before dying. The rest of the book is about Mark's attempts to stay safe while everyone - the FBI, the police in New Orleans and Memphis, the mafia - is after him. Surprisingly suspenseful and touching. (  ) melydia | Oct 28, 2009 | Great plot. great character, very funny, very clever. G at his best. (  ) polo9 | Oct 13, 2009 | I like Grisham's stories and read this book with pleasure. I know this book in my native language, but it is a very interesting experience for me to read this story in English. The book is very useful for students- at the end of the book you can find Activities, where you can check your knowledge about the content of the book and English words. ( ) babaruda | Oct 8, 2009 | A very suspensful book and well-written. Probably my favorite Grisham book, so far. I enjoyed reading it and recommend it for others. ( ) beatle426 | Aug 27, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a guy trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his Mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buried him in the concrete under his garage in New Orleans. Then Jerome puts a bullet in his own head. Little Ricky flips out, and so does Barry the Blade Muldanno, who doesn't want blustery U.S. attorney Reverend Roy Foltrigg to find the corpse and bust him. Caught in a ruthless game between the Mob and the amoral authorities, Mark's family has no defense in the world except Reggie Love, a 50ish divorcée who has just turned her life around by becoming a lawyer. Does she have what it takes to help Mark beat the system? The life-or-death chase is on!
Mark has seen a lot of movies, and he sees life in cinematic terms. So does Grisham. Even if this novel had never been filmed, it would still be a really good, fast-paced movie. Its literary limitation is also its filmlike virtue: The Client is a rush.
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