The Associate - by John Grisham (Paperback)

About the Book

With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains and featuring all the twists and turns that have made Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, "The Associate" is vintage Grisham at his best.

Book 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.

Review 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

About the Author

John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.