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The Associate: A Novel |  | Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Rating:  658 reviews
Sales Rank: 6319
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 434
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0440243823
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780440243823
ASIN: 0440243823
Publication Date: September 22, 2009
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Product Description
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to ruin him–unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world’s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he’ll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there’s a catch. Kyle won’t be working for the firm but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm–in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery may be able to escape alive.
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 Good, But Could Be Better July 20, 2010
Chris L (Massachusetts)
I received The Associate as a gift quite a while ago, and forgot about it until yesterday night. As soon as I read the first chapter, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to put it down. Having finished it in less than 24 hours, I think its safe to say that I really enjoyed it. It provided the cheap thrills and big name that goes along with all the good thriller films, my guilty pleasure. In fact, there's an agreement already to make a film starring Shia Labeouf. In hindsight, it really seemed like a halfhearted effort by Grisham. Aside form this, I've only read one other book of his, The Innocent Man, which I couldn't even finish half of. I found it incredibly boring and forgettable. I don't remember the plot whatsoever. The Associate, on the other hand, was really impossible to put down. I'm assuming its because of Grisham's natural ability as a storyteller, regardless the quality of the story. That story was really terrible. Loose ends were left wide open, and the ending was the most unceremonious I've ever read. I was really expecting a huge twist to the storyline. There was none. The one twist, albeit an excellent one, was used within the first twenty pages of the book. Grisham really nailed the writing, though. I think that's what drew me in so hard and so fast.
 John Grisham, The Associate July 20, 2010
P.M.
This item took a very long time to arrive, though not beyond the promised shipment arrival date. It was a new copy, but must have been a "factory second". While, still readable, there were several pages of smudged print. Not something you would normally expect when you open up a book to read. Perhaps the compromised quality was due to the price. Still expecting to receive a non-defective product when an item is advertised as "new" is not an unreasonable expectation.
more loose ends than a bucket of snakes July 20, 2010
jeffrey g white
I've read pretty much all of Grisham's books. While this one employees his typical, fast, page turning prose, it's as if he started a book without any idea of how to end it. There are more incomplete stories, half-baked character developments, truncated relationships than should be allowed. c'mon John.... you can do better than this one.
 one of the few disappointing books July 18, 2010
Jeffrey Baker (Bainbridge, PA USA)
A lot of pages were spent giving details. The ending left way too many unanswered questions. I was disappointed with this book. First time with a Grisham book.
 Great reading July 17, 2010
Monika Galli (portugal)
Great reading and I could not lay the book away until the end.
From the first sentence onwards gripping and very realistic about business and lawyers in the big cities.
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