Books : The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5)
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by: John Grisham
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780582418271
ISBN: 0582418275
Label: Pearson ESL
Manufacturer: Pearson ESL
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 76
Publication Date: February 15, 2000
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Sales Rank: 47028
Studio: Pearson ESL
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Product Description:
When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm he chose was small, but-well respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage. Now the house, the car and the job are his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new bedroom, the mysterious deaths of colleagues, and the millions of dollars of mob money pouring through the office into the Cayman Islands, dollars that the FBI would do anything to trace. Now Mitch is in the place where dreams end and nightmares begin...
Amazon.com 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 the best part of town, and puts in long hours finding tax shelters for Texans who'd rather pay a lawyer than the IRS. Nothing criminal about that. He'd be set for life, if only associates at the firm didn't have a funny habit of dying, and the FBI wasn't trying to get Mitch to turn his colleagues in. The tempo and pacing are brilliant, the thrills keep coming, and the finish has a wonderful ironic flourish. It's not hard to see why Grisham changed the genre permanently with this one, and few of his colleagues in a very crowded field come close to equaling him. --Jane Adams
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Firm: A Must Read
This was my first Grisham book and it certainly did not disappoint. The story begins when Mitch Mcdeere finally finishes his schooling at Harvard Law. He receives job offers from all big law firms on Wall Street, but he also receives a different offer from a firm in Memphis. They offer him a huge salary, a new BMW, and no more school loan expenses, it seems too good to be true, unfortunately it is. Mitch begins to see the darker side of the firm after he gets there. No one has ever left the ... Read More
Rating: - Beware of Offers You Cannot Refuse
The Firm launched John Grisham to superstar status as the world's favorite debunker of the legal profession. The Firm perfectly casts the way that high-potential law students are wined, dined, and bribed into taking sweat shop jobs that ruin their lives. But like all good novels, that's just the beginning of the story. How does a small-to-medium-sized Memphis firm outbid the Wall Street boys? Therein lies a good tale.
The Firm is appealing because it takes you inside the world of exclusive, ... Read More
Rating:  - Scott Brick does a good job reading this thriller
The Firm
Story: 4 out of 5 stars
Abridged: No
Quality of narration: 4 stars
Reader's range of character voices: 2 stars
Pros: I have read the book and listened to the audiobook, both versions are unputdownable. As for the audiobook narration, Scott Brick's voice is warm and listenable. His delivery is clearly enunciated and pitched so you don't have to keep changing volume to hear what's being said.
Cons: Brick does an excellent job on New York and ... Read More
Rating: - Good Read
This thrilling and exhilarating Grisham novel starts out and explains the normal occurrences of a lawyer fresh out of law school. The long nights and hard work seem to have brought Mitch McDeere exactly what he wanted, a warm climate, a BMW, and a mortgage to a house for himself and his wife. He soon realized after two deaths his first day on the job that the firm was not a safe place to be. After being approached by the FBI I was always curious as to whether he would follow the same path as the former associates ... Read More
Rating: - awesome page turner
This is one of the few books that had me waking up in the middle of the night to read another chapter. I found it fascinating...
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