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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER �?� 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 … (more)
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I feel that I didn't really learn too much from this book. But what I did learn is how much witnessing a crime or knowing about a crime can affect your life. I never knew what kind of power that the mob can have over people's lives. It was interesting to learn this.
A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever.
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A US state senator is dead, and a young boy is told the name of the killer - a mafia hitman, Danny 'The Blade' Muldano - by Muldano's lawyer. After the lawyer's suicide, Muldano and the boy are the only people who know the killer's
Grisham has mastered the art of the "page turner," but once in the last fourth of the book I wondered how many more pages of nonsensical narrative I would have to turn. The Client is an enjoyable read, served best with an iced drink and a day off from work, but the primary conflict of the story could be quickly resolved if just one of the characters (namely, Mark, Reggie, and Dianne) makes a common sense decision. There are many opportunities to make wise choices and each are approached with implausible foolishness.
Mark Sway is a wonderfully developed multidimensional character, whose emotional complexity, sense of humor, and loyalty to family are admirable and relatable. Grisham so accurately portrays the tension between precocious maturity and juvenile folly found in pre-adolescent, older sons with abusive fathers and victimized mothers that it makes ones wonder about the events of Grisham's own life. The remaining characters fall a bit flat, including Reggie, who seems to fit the stereotype of the bleeding heart, sensitive liberal trying to protect an innocent boy from the hands of the evil Republican government, and Judge Harry Roosevelt, the judicial rebel with a pretty obvious cause, who is all too corny to believe. The only secondary character who seems not to come from a cookie-cutter is K.O. Lewis, the Deputy Director of the FBI, who reflects both compassion and justice as well as common sense.
One wonders why Grisham felt the need to have a sexy secretary in Roosevelt's courtroom. The "short skirt" scenes seem forced and unnecessary. Must all mainstream fiction express some prurient disposition? Readers would survive if writers didn't try to touch our hearts and our pants.
Overall, a pleasurable read with little to offer but entertainment.