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About this Book

Format:Hardcover

Dimensions:384 Pages, 6.44 x 9.55 x 1.26 in

Published:January 27, 2009

Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10:0385517831
ISBN - 13:9780385517836

From the Publisher

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait
until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate

Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.

But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want-even though it's a job most law students can only dream about.

Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.

With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains-from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle's "cubicle" at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country-and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.

From the Jacket

"GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY…The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Grisham's confident style hasn't changed, and THERE'S SUSPENSE APLENTY." -People

"Grisham makes it easy for us to keep flipping the pages…A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF THE BIG-TIME, BIG-BUCKS LEGAL WORLD." -Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

"Throughout, Grisham unwinds the spool of his narrative at a MASTERFUL, page-turning pace that pulls readers in and keeps them wanting more…The Associate is an absorbing thriller that's A FITTING FOLLOW-UP TO THE FIRM." -The Boston Globe

"COMPULSIVELY READABLE…You're peering into a secret world of power and money. What more could you or any red-blooded American ask for?" -Time magazine

"A PAGE-TURNER…Kyle McAvoy recalls Mitch McDeere from Grisham's breakout novel The Firm. He's young, idealistic, handsome, a little too cocky for his own good, but a brilliant lawyer who gets pulled in over his head and given an education in how the world really works." -The Los Angeles Times

About the Author

JOHN GRISHAM has written twenty previous novels and one work of nonfiction, The Innocent Man, published in 2006. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.

From the Critics

"GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY…The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Grisham's confident style hasn't changed, and THERE'S SUSPENSE APLENTY." -People

"Grisham makes it easy for us to keep flipping the pages…A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF THE BIG-TIME, BIG-BUCKS LEGAL WORLD." -Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

"Throughout, Grisham unwinds the spool of his narrative at a MASTERFUL, page-turning pace that pulls readers in and keeps them wanting more…The Associate is an absorbing thriller that''s A FITTING FOLLOW-UP TO THE FIRM." -The Boston Globe

"COMPULSIVELY READABLE…You''re peering into a secret world of power and money. What more could you or any red-blooded American ask for?" -Time magazine

"A PAGE-TURNER…Kyle McAvoy recalls Mitch McDeere from Grisham''s breakout novel The Firm. He''s young, idealistic, handsome, a little too cocky for his own good, but a brilliant lawyer who gets pulled in over his head and given an education in how the world really works." -The Los Angeles Times

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Pam
Good, not Great

5 months ago

I picked up the latest John Grisham book hoping I didn't make a mistake. With a Grisham novel you never know. Some are amazing and some are just down-right awful. Right off the bat it caught my interest and kept me hooked until about two-thirds of the way in. I really think the ending was quite awful with respect to the way it ended and that it left the reader with so many unanswered questions. It's as though Grisham just wanted to wrap it up quickly. I too was a little disturbed at how Kyle… + read more
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Possibly his worst ever

7 months ago

It has been a while since John Grisham has reached the level of some of his earlier works like a Time to Kill, but the Associate has to be one of his worst yet. The book is so full of holes and the main character is not someone worth cheering for. He is a guy who is incapable of empathy for a young woman who may have been raped. Perhaps the biggest problem is the driving force for ihs actions is not even mentioned in the last third of the book when he makes all his key decisions.
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Jane Petroni
Good story

7 months ago

The story was exciting, although I felt like I was left haning at the end. If you like Grisham's previous lawyer stories, you will like this one too!
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bruce davidson
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worth the read

9 months ago

i agree with the previous two reviews. loose ends. but a good read. who is the mystery man and what will happen to kyle?
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Patrick Shea
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Great while reading

9 months ago

I have read all the Grisham books and enjoy reading new titles as they come out. I enjoyed reading the Associate and had a hard time putting it down long enough to get somethiing done. I am afraid that John is just knocking out new books for the money and runs out of steam when the end is near. For Pete's sake tie up some loose ends. I paid for a complete novel not a lead up to a series.
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