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JOHN
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THE CLIENT
By John Grisham
Doubleday
422pp.. $23.50
Although skeptical at first.
I've concluded that John
Grisham's latest novel The
Client is ns good as his previous
books
Grisham — a master of the
genre known as the legal thriller
— has had two previous books
on the best seller lists, and The
By John Fleischli
Client has also sailed into the
top 10 list for fiction.
His exciting second novel.
The hirtn. was made into a
movie and is playing in theaters
currently The Client would also
lie great on the big m men. It has
a cmematu quality to it and
plenty of dramatic action. While
reading the novel, 1 couldn't
help but picture* Robert Patrick
(of Terminator 2 fame) as the
tough, vet cool, main character.
The main c harac ter in this
book is a young boy named
Mark Me. like* the characters in
other Grisham novels, is w anted
bv people who want to kill him
In the beginning of the book.
Mark finds out some informa
tion that he is not supposed to
know. He witnesses the suicide
of a law yer, but not before the
lawyer tells him the sc*c ret locu
tion of a dead body. The body is
that of a Southern senator who
was killed by the mafia, and this
information haunts Mark for the*
rest of the novel
Mark hires a competent
lawyer named Reggie Love. She
is streetsinart like* Mark and a
survivor who truly cares about
her ( limits — mostly juveniles
gone astrav With her help. Mark
works his wav through the legal
proceedings he is suddenly
thrown into.
The book moves along at a
nice clip and becomes quite
good and hard to put down dur
ing the Inst 1(M) pages The plot
lines developed through the sto
rv head to a riveting climax and
the hook concludes with a satis
fying resolution.
The book uses situations sim
ilar to those in earlier novels by
Grisham. In both The Firm and
The Pelican Brief, the main
character is on the run. The
mafia in all three is the villain
wanting to snuff out the protag
onist for something they have
accidentally found out.
On the other side is the sup
posedly benevolent government
agency, such as the FBI, trying
to protect the character and get
them to tell what they know so
they can act. But their inability
to provide the needed assur
ances of safety makes the
hero{ine)s wary of turning to the
authorities for help. So they end
up running.
The authorahlv conveys the
fear and anxiety the protagonists
go through in their search for a
way out of Iheir predicament. In
The Client. Grisham vividly
describes the scene when Murk
and his lawyer am literally run
ning through the hack yards of
a suburb in New Orleans trying
to evade the mafia, which is hot
on their tail. They need to get
the evidence before their would
be assassins do in order to save
themselves
The legal thriller was made
popular by the lawyer-turned
novelist Scott Turow, author of
the book Presumed Innocent.
which was made into a recent
movie With the glut of lawyers
this country has it is no surprise
that some of them would turn to
writing novels about the law
This is good because when they
add the humanizing elements of
< haracters, settings and a well
developed plot it makes the law
more interesting and real for the
reader interested in legal issues.
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