Buy it, read it and enjoy it! The latest book by Grisham is gripping. The beginning is new, ending is predictable but the journey in between is par excellence. Here is a book which has all the elements of a good story; hope, despair, crime, passion, failure, success, wit and deceit. The author deftly infuses laughter even during the unlikely situations.
The cast: A graduate from a highly regarded institute, a street cop turner lawyer and one other lawyer who specializes in hustling and chasing ambulances.
Welcome to Finley & Figg, a boutique law firm. It specializes in schemes (some of them shady) which help the partners in making a quick buck. The senior partner is a former street cop and the junior partner is an innovative advertiser (bingo card!!??). The partners have never worked on anything which requires them to face a jury. They handle petty cases and are happy with their job. The Harvard Law School graduate enters the firm. He is burnt by his past work, and has literally escaped from a high paying job and an equally nasty manager. Street law is different and the new employee has to learn it on the job.
Under such circumstances, the junior partner stumbles on to a case which he presumes is the right means to hit a jackpot. The original plan is to play second fiddle to another major law firm and reek in the easy moolah. Alas, this fails and the boutique law firm is pitted against a giant corporation with unlimited resources at this disposal. The trio, until now, has only worked towards building their plaintiff list, rather than the actual merits of the case. Now they face the daunting task of fighting against an impossible lawsuit. They have no option but to fight it out, or else they face another lawsuit for malpractice.
True to his style, the author never lets you down with the courtroom situations. I couldn’t help, but laugh out loud on many confrontations in the novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope you do the same. A must have inclusion in the library of every John Grisham fan.
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