The Associate

ISBN: 0385517831

Author: Grisham, John

Condition: New

#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 worldA page-turner . . . Kyle McAvoy recalls Mitch McDeere from Grishams breakout novel The Firm. Hes young, idealistic, handsome, a little too cocky for his own good, but a brilliant lawyer who gets pulled in over his head.-Los Angeles TimesKyle 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 theyll 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 worlds largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, hell be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune.But theres a catch. Kyle wont 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.

• John Grisham | Hardback | First Edition | Collectible | Kyle McAvoy