The Firm (novel)
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| Author | John Grisham |
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| Country | U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Legal thriller |
| Publisher | Random House (1st edition) |
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1 February 1991 (1st edition) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 432 (Hardcover 1st edition) |
| ISBN | (Hardcover 1st edition) |
| OCLC | 22108726 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3557.R5355 F57 1991 |
The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized book, and in 1993 after it sold 1.5 million copies, was made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, came into recognition afterwards due to this novel's success.
Mitchell Y. "Mitch" McDeere graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in accounting, passed his Certified Public Accountant exams on the first attempt, and graduated third in his class at Harvard Law School. Mitch is married to his high school sweetheart, Abby Sutherland, an elementary school teacher who also attended Western Kentucky University. His older brother Ray is imprisoned in Tennessee, and his other brother, Rusty, died in Vietnam.
Mitch spurns offers from law firms in New York and Chicago in favor of signing with Bendini, Lambert and Locke, a small tax law firm based in Memphis. He finds the firm's offer—a large salary, a lease on a new BMW automobile and a low interest mortgage on a house—too generous to resist. Soon after he joins, his new colleagues help him study and pass his bar exam—the first priority for new associates. Mitch is assigned to partner Avery Tolar, the firm's "bad boy," but a highly accomplished attorney.
Two of Mitch's colleagues, Marty Kozinski and Joe Hodge, die in a scuba diving accident in the Cayman Islands a few days before he starts at the firm. On his first scheduled day of work, Mitch attends their funerals. Mitch finds the deaths unsettling, but focuses on his goal of becoming the youngest partner in the firm's history. During a memorial service at the firm for the two deceased attorneys, Mitch notices plaques commemorating three other attorneys who died while working at the firm. Suspicious, he hires a private investigator, Eddie Lomax, an ex-cell mate of his brother Ray, to investigate the deaths of the attorneys.
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