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1. BOOKS OF THE TIMES; How Do You Fight the Mob? Get a Lawyer

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Thriller, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The Client By John Grisham 422 Pages. Doubleday. $23.50. <P> The Opening Of John Grisham'S Latest Legal, Client, "The, Brother, " Is Irresistible. Eleven-Year-Old Mark Sway Is Leading His 8-Year-Old, Ricky, Memphis, Into The Woods Near Their Trailer-Park Home In, Tenn., Bushes, To Give Him His First Cigarette. While The Boys Are Lighting Up Behind Some, Long, A., Black, By, Shiny Lincoln Comes Rolling Up A Dirt Road Close, Out, Pulls To A Stop. A Chubby Man In A Black Suit Climbs, Trunk, Removes A Water Hose From The, Pipe, Attaches One End To The Exhaust, Window, Slides The Other End Through The Partly Open Left Rear, Car, Climbs Back Into The, and Engine., Starts The more...

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Little Ricky wants to run home, but Mark, being older and more street wise, knows what he must do. He crawls to the rear of the car, removes the hose [...]

Published
1993

2. THRILLER of the week.

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John Grisham

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Hodder & Stoughton £20 Grisham has long used his thrillers to explore social issues, and never more so than in this latest book, which is as close to John Steinbeck as to Raymond Chandler. Samantha Kofer has been laid off by a big New York law firm, following the financial crash, and ends up as an unpaid intern at a legal aid clinic in a remote Appalachian town. She soon gets drawn into a new life, representing penniless victims of the mining companies rather than Manhattan property developers. A crime story does emerge in the second half of the book, but this is at heart an eminently readable account of the hard lives of America's forgotten rural poor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] more...

Published
2014

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