Associate, the: A Novel by John Grisham
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#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.
