The Client (Fiction omnibus) (Penguin Joint Venture Readers S.) (Penguin Readers: Level 4)

by John Grisham

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America.

Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years.

Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.
--back cover

• ISBN10: 0038542471
• ISBN13: 9780038542475
• Publish Date: 27 April 1994 (first published 1 January 1993)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Bantam Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish

Reviews

[readingwithwrin]

This book was apart of my read 5 books from the year I was born challenge.

I really did enjoy this story. Mark was a character that I found myself wanting to protect. The other characters I liked as well and I found the multiple pov's to really add to the story. We got to see so many different things and why certain things were happening. It helped me understand certain things in the legal system that while might not still be true, do explain why certain things used to happen. I also liked how most of the adults around Mark and his brother wanted to protect them as much as they possibly could. That isn't something I was expecting to happen considering how big of a case this was and it was just really nice to see.

I'm so glad it ended as it did with justice having been served.

I remember reading this a long time ago during high school and it was a good book. The reason I didn't rate it higher is because I never bother to pick it up again to reread like I have done with previous books. Back in High School I was such a John Grisham fan that I had 10+ books of his.

It was a good book and I would still tell people to read it.

[mitabird]

3.5 stars