The Street Lawyer - by John Grisham (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.

A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plush offices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered on Michael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived--and where society's powerless need an advocate for justice.

But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that has floated up from the depths of Drake & Sweeney, from a confidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from a conspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's former partners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them, Michael Brock is the most dangerous man on the streets.

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Review Quotes

"Grisham at his plot-driven best."--The Denver Post

"An entertaining read with an important theme . . . The story unfolds in breakneck fashion with those wonderful pages-long passages of taut Grisham dialogue."--Chicago Sun-Times

"The plot surges forward, pulling us along as we turn those pages a mile a minute."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Powerful."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"The Street Lawyer hits the ground on a dead run."--San Diego Union-Tribune

"Intricately plotted . . . smoothly told . . . [a] moving exploration of the world of the homeless."--Publishers Weekly

"Riveting."--Detroit News

About the Author

John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.