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03.04.2009

THE ASSOCIATE
John Grisham
Fiction
373 pages | 2009

76-WORD BOOK REVIEW: THE ASSOCIATE

A young graduate becomes blackmailed into spying on his new employer, one of the world’s largest law firms, and getting information on one of their most secretive cases. Haunted by mistakes in his past and faced with the grim prospects of failure in the present, Kyle McAvoy finds himself trying to outsmart his enemies and outlive his predicament. The ending comes abruptly, but does give McAvoy’s story a sense of closure. Another entertaining offering from Grisham. B

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