The Street Lawyer, John Grisham
The Street Lawyer, John Grisham
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The Street Lawyer

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/06/1998

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Compelling . . . another timely tale from John Grisham. [The Street Lawyer] shows not only that Grisham has his finger on the public pulse but that he’s also out to prick its conscience.”—Chicago Tribune

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was no more than three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience.

Then a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, but his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging and learned that his attacker was a mentally ill veteran who’d been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney.

The fast track derailed, the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer. And a thief.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on May 20, 2024

Up and coming corporate lawyer Michael Brock is held hostage alongside eight other lawyers by what appears to be a homeless and deranged black man. After the siege comes to the tragic expected end, Michael just can't let it go; and eventually finds himself looking into the plight of the hostage take......more

Goodreads review by Bill on February 28, 2020

An entertaining thriller from John Grisham. Also an excellent introduction to the plight of the homeless on the streets of D.C.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on January 11, 2024

This book was donated to my Little Free Library Shed. But… After the disappointment of “The Exchange,” I wasn’t sure I wanted to plunge myself into another Grisham. Review here: [URL not allowed] Still… I have found his earlier books to be quite satisfying. So… I began reading. M......more

Goodreads review by Tea on November 28, 2016

Potpuno sam subjektivna kada je u pitanju Grišam... Najpre sam godina bila njegov prevodilac, a potom i urednik... I apsolutno je nenadmašan i maher kada su u pitanju "legal" trileri... :) Ovu knjigu sam prevela pre 15 godina i nedavno je doživela novo izdanje kod drugog izdavača.........more

Goodreads review by S.P. on April 09, 2019

One of Grisham's most inspirational novels, and among those that turned me into a Grisham fan. It is clear that the author was disturbed by the plight of the homeless and decided he would write a fictional vehicle to raise awareness of this problem. What makes the story more striking is the contrast......more

Quotes

“Grisham at his plot-driven best.”—The Denver Post

“An entertaining read with an important theme . . . The story unfolds in breakneck fashion with those wonderful pages-long passages of taut Grisham dialogue.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“The plot surges forward, pulling us along as we turn those pages a mile a minute.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Powerful.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

“The Street Lawyer hits the ground on a dead run.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

“Intricately plotted . . . smoothly told . . . [a] moving exploration of the world of the homeless.”—Publishers Weekly

“Riveting.”—Detroit News

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