The Firm

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Author: John Grisham
Narrator: D.W. Moffett
Category: Fiction)
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio
Release Date: 1999
Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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An Overview:
The Firm, fresh out of Harvard law school, Mitchell McDere is considering offers of employment from several prestigious law firms. When The Firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, out of Memphis, almost doubles the other offers, McDere plays it cool—but goes home and starts packing.

Mitch’s wife, Abbey, is a bit more cautious about the lucrative offer—especially after being informed about the company’s policy on divorce, and how child bearing is “encouraged” by the firm.

Still, they relocate to Memphis and Mitch sets out to become their top tax lawyer within the first year. With a huge work load piled on his desk right from the start, Mitch hardly has time to study for the bar exam—but he steals some, anyway, to look into the peculiar fact that several young lawyers once employed at Bendini, Lambert & Locke are now dead.

He visits his brother, Ray, who is in prison with seven years left on a manslaughter charge and gets the name of Ray’s old cellmate, an ex-police officer now doing private investigating. He hires this Eddy Lomax, and finds time for some investigating on his own when he gets to the Cayman Islands with Avery, his assigned partner.

Much of the firm’s business is conducted on the Islands where money is tax fee and not much is questioned. Not even the dive boat explosion that just killed two more of the firm’s young lawyers.In an ingenious plot that has everyone spying on everyone, the story delves deep into money laundering, tax law, and loyalty.

Keeping just a half-step ahead of the men at the firm, the mobsters they work for, the FBI who want his help, and the risk of being disbarred before the ink is dry on his license, Grisham’s young lawyer wracks his brain (and body) to come up with a way to get out of it all—and not only with his life, but with his marriage intact, his convict brother freed, and his new license still hanging on the wall, too.

This clever cat-and-mouse romp keeps you intrigued right up to the end. It is one of Grisham’s many “bests.”

The Narration:
D.W. Moffett does a great performance. He has an intriguing repertoire of voices to go along with the suspense levels and cast of characters

Audiobook reviewed by Dawn Fagan

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