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The Firm by John Grisham
The Firm by John Grisham will draw you into a situation where the choices you make not only affect you, but also the people who depend on you. When a young lawyer named Mitch McDeere has to choose between staying with a corrupt business or doing the right thing.The decisions that are made throughout the book are told by the lawyer Mitch.
The story is centered around Mitch McDeere. He finished 3rd in his class at Harvard Law School. All the top law firms are trying to get Mitch to work for them. He decides to join a small firm in Memphis called Bendini, Lambert & Locke. They offer him a deal he finds hard to refuse.
Upon joining this firm, Mitch would be paid $80,000 a year with regular increases, and the firm supplying him with a brand new BMW, a low rate mortgage, and clearing his student debts. Mitch comes from a poor family and is extremely proud of himself for managing to get such a great job. He and Abby, his wife, move to Memphis to start their new life, and for Mitch to start his new job.
Mitch has an older brother named Ray who was charged and found guilty of 2nd degree murder. Ray is fluent in at least four languages that he has studied before and during his prison sentence. He often speaks Spanish with his brother, although Mitch isn’t as good as Ray is at it. Ray often talked about visiting different countries: “I’ve been reading about the Greek isles. I plan to go there soon.� Mitch thought this was funny because Ray still had seven years left until parole.
Two of Mitch's colleagues die in a scuba diving accident in the Cayman Islands the week he starts at the firm. During a memorial service at the firm for them, Mitch notices plaques commemorating three other attorneys who died while working at the firm. He was suspicious so he hired a private investigator named Eddie Lomax, an ex-cell mate of his brother Ray, to investigate the deaths of the attorneys.
Mitch isn’t the only person involved in his plan. He also gets help from his wife and Eddie Lomax’s previous secretary, Tammy. Even at the end Wayne Tarrance, a FBI agent, is baffled at Tammy’s involvement in the plan: “I have a question�, Wayne asked her. “Where did he find you? This would have been impossible without you.�

Mitch was always one step ahead of everyone but little did he know that he would have to take down the people that hired him. The book makes you want to read it to find out how Mitch gets himself out of his little problems and also his final big problem. I like the way John Grisham makes Mitch seem like a normal person, and then he becomes smarter than everyone around him.
Even though this story is fictional, you feel as though John Grisham has explained it as though he had experienced it before. This book makes you wonder what you would have done if you were Mitch, as he tries to keep his bosses, the Mafia, from finding out about him talking to the FBI.
I think that the theme of the story is about making choices you will have to live with. The Firm is a good example of how large corporations can deceive and manipulate their employees with money and blackmail. This book shows how deception and betrayal are everywhere, including the people who are supposed to fight for justice.
Page Count: 501
Genre: Legal Thriller