Summary Of The Book The Firm, originally published in 1991, is a legal thriller. It is about Mitch McDeere, a brilliant Harvard Law graduate who joins a small tax law firm in Memphis. Just few days into his job, he hears that two of his colleagues have died in a scuba-diving accident. The protagonist soon discovers that three other lawyers have also died in the last fifteen years. This makes him suspicious, and he decides to hire a private investigator, Eddie Lomax, who later tells him that all five attorneys have died under questionable circumstances. Later, Lomax gets murdered.
McDeere is then approached by Wayne Tarrance, an FBI agent. The protagonist then gets to know the firm that he is working for is run by the Morolto crime family. The senior management is involved in tax frauds and money laundering, amounting to millions of dollars. To ensure that this secret is not leaked out, no lawyer gets to leave the firm alive. McDeere is shocked, and he realizes that his office, car, and house have all been bugged. He is keen to get out of this situation, and therefore makes a deal with the FBI. However, the firm becomes suspicious of McDeere, and they figure out that his loyalty does not lie with them. With his life in danger, what will McDeere do in The Firm?
This novel has an excellent plot, and each character is well defined. The Firm is fast, unpredictable, and captivating. After it had sold 1.5 million copies by 1993, this book was adapted into a movie starring Tom Cruise. As of now, The Firm has sold more than twelve million copies, and has been made into a television series.
About John Grisham John Ray Grisham, Jr., born in 1955, is an author, lawyer, and politician. Some of his legal thrillers are The Appeal, The Rainmaker, The Litigators, and The Street Lawyer. Grisham completed his BS degree in Accounting from the Mississippi State University. He then joined the University of Mississippi School of Law, from where he graduated with a JD degree in 1983. The author practised law for almost ten years, and then won an election. He has won the Galaxy British Book Award, and the 2005 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. His books have been translated into nearly thirty languages, and they have sold more than 250 million copies around the globe.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. One day at the DeSoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June 1988. Spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, The Firm became the bestselling novel of 1991. Grisham took time off from writing for several months in 1996 to return, after a five-year hiatus, to the courtroom. He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full-time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars. Preparing his case with the same passion and dedication as his books' protagonists, Grisham successfully argued his clients' case, earning them a jury award of $683,500--the biggest verdict of his career. When he's not writing, Grisham devotes time to charitable causes, including most recently his Rebuild The Coast Fund, which raised 8.8 million dollars for Gulf Coast relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He also keeps up with his greatest passion: baseball. The man who dreamed of being a professional baseball player now serves as the local Little League commissioner. The six ballfields he built on his property have played host to over 350 kids on 26 Little League teams.
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