The Client - John Grisham

The Client is the story of an ex alcoholic lawyer called Reggie Love who is hired by a young boy who has witnessed the suicide of a mob lawyer. The two embark on a journey of discovery and intrigue as Reggie finds the love a child when hers have been taken away from her. For Mark Swain, he must clear his own and his brothers name and evade the harassment of the prosecuting DA. The pace is up to the usual Grisham speed and his easy writing style make ...

MarcusPerkins 12.09.2000 · Read full review
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...to. He tries to do the right thing while having to carry his family through rough times too. Once again, Grisham's characters are well developed and interesting, and the story moves briskly. Grisham succeeds in focusing on the boy and his reactions to the events, and how his lawyer tries to protect him and his family while trying to outsmart all opponents. This is a good read from Grisham. One thing, though - a lawyer going to all this trouble for ...

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...kid who runs rings around the American legal system. It starts out with two young boys who are out on a walk when they chance on a man about to commit suicide - the man tells the older boy a deadly secret (which is the reason for the man's suicide). The younger of the two boys, Ricky, is so traumatized by the event, that he has to be hospitalized. It turns out that the man who had died, had been involved with some notorious gang who had cops and ...
...It is here, at the hospital, that young Mark Swain overhears a conversation between an ambulance chasing lawyer, and a prospective client, and he hears the entire negotiation going on. Mark decides that because of the fact that he had gotten his brother into that state, all because he had gone out for a walk to smoke a cigarette, he would need to take it upon himself to find a lawyer to represent them. His mother after all, needed all the help she ...

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...on them. To escape from the reality of his life he sneaks off to the woods with his younger brother Ricky to smoke a cigarette. It is in these woods they come across a man trying to commit suicide, the man is in fact a lawyer on the mobs payroll. Mark showing his brother how brave he is repeatedly tries to stop the man being successful in ending his life. Eventually Mark is caught and learns the reason why the lawyer is so desperate. The lawyer knows ...
...In sheer desperation the man kills himself and Mark hurries back to the trailer with Ricky. Ricky on seeing the man catch Mark suffers shock and is taken to hospital. The police question Mark about what happened to Ricky and also about what happened in the woods, Mark though maintains they saw and heard nothing. Soon Mark gets another visit, this time from Danny the Blade Muldano the prime mob character who threatens him and his family if he tells ...

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...only to be pulled into the car by Romey. He tells the boy that they will die together. The boy soon realises that he is a lawyer who knows were a client has buried a top Senator. He escapes and runs away with his brother who goes into shock for the rest of the story. He then has to live at a charity hospital and decides after some police/FBI interrogation that he needs a lawyer. She is a lawyer who specialises in children cases but has never encountered ...
...from the Mafia. Reggie (the lawyer) then has to defend Mark from the Mafia and the courts. This is a book that has you staying up too late at night and dominates your free time until you finish. It is a typical Grisham book that deserved the film and credit it duly got. ...

christopherj84 05.02.2001 · Read full review
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...on holiday. After opening the front page, the holiday was instantly forgotten as Grisham began to weave yet another tale of mystery and suspense. I could not put it down. I think this has got to be among his best novels so far, although I end up saying that about each one! The story is hard-hitting, emotional, and jam-packed full of suspense. The way he describes the boy, so tough and street-wise, but when faced with hard-core crime, even he begins ...
...The character research he put into her must have taken months. She is everything she appears not to be at face value, and as a result is seriously underestimated by all the big officials she and her client are up against. A real girl-power icon! After reading the book, the film seemed so short and uneventful. If you're going to see the film, definitely read the book. Grisham has outdone himself yet again, although I think even he must realise it ...

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The Client, is a story about an 11 year old boy, Mark Sway and his eight year old brother, Ricky who go off into the woods at the back of their trailer home, so that Mark can let Ricky have his first smoke, but a mob lawyer decides that this is where he is going to commit suicide. The lawyer is Jerome Clifford you just happens to be defending Mob gangster Barry the Blade Muldanno against the charge of murdering Senator Boyette, Mark tries to stop ...
...the car, Mark manages to get away but finds his brother in severe shock. Ricky is taken to an indigent hospital. Now the FBI and the mob are after Mark to find out what if anything he knows. Mark manages to find a lawyer that he hires for a dollar retainer. However the FBI and more importantly the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Louisiana, are desperate to find out what Mark Knows and use every dirty trick possible to try and ...

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The Client is about an 11 year old boy called Mark Sway who is from a broken family and has witnessed the death of a US State Senator. He is being pursued by the FBI whom wants him to reveal everything he knows about the killing and in the meantime the killer himself is trying to get to Mark & his mother and cause them harm in order to stop Mark from talking about what he witnessed whilst having a sneaky cigarette in the woods near his house. Mark ...
...Mark from the FBI whilst trying to shield him from the actual killer who wants to ensure that Mark is never able to talk to anybody else about what has happened. The book is very action packed and I found myself feeling real sympathy for Mark as he was just a young boy who was doing something silly and found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and now he is suffering the consequences of witnessing a killing. The reader is shown the events ...

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...This lawyer turns up in the vicinity and attempts to kill himself using exhaust fumes. The Kids try and stop him but Mark ends up in the car with with the Lawyer (Romney Clifford) who reveals to him the whereabouts of a buried body just before he blows his own brains out. Once the kids make their gataway from the scene things start going wrong and Mark's younger brother ends up in hospital. Mark manages to barge into a lawyers' office and employs ...
...said that you need to use quite a bit of imagination to accept all the events.. The ending was very good but I expected all the culprits to get their just rewards. All in all this was a good read but not in the same class of the FIRM ...

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...his younger brother. They witness the suicide of a Mafia lawyer who happened to know where the victims body of a mob killing. The younger brother is in a coma and the older brother being a kid from a rough upbringing with a mother that has a brain of a child is unsure whether to tell the FBI the information they need to bring down one of the top mafia killers. The kid goes to find a lawyer and chooses a struggling family law lawyer called Reggie ...

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...best, he describes in depth the events that take place within this book, although very similar to all of John Grishams other books if you a fan anyway this is a must have read, exciting and at times you are on the edge of your seat waiting to see what events will next unfold, in some ways diffent to those books he has previously written as this particular one is based on one specific person however there are a number of other people that are also ...

lawjlove 21.04.2007 (06.05.2007) · Read full review
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...yet, a Maffia related one. The FBI comes after you, as well as the mob, your little brother is in shock in the hospital nopw where on earth do you go for help? Reggie Love takes under her wing, a boy who's lived this, and is now trying to not just find evidence so everyone'll get off his back, but protect him with law and motherly concern. The Client is the appealing story of what happens when a small boy walks into a lawfirm desperate for legal ...

Misha13 21.06.2000 · Read full review
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...read this book after watching the film and seriously, this has to be one of my favourite books. I admire the character of Mark Sway (The leading role) and this character is put across brilliantly from the start. It is about a streetwise kid who sees something he shouldn't have and the FBI and the Mob are hunting him down. The Story really makes you feel for the character and become entangled in the emotions. I have frequently picked this book up ...
...touch of relief from all the high emotions. This book is not very action packed but more of a "lawyer" story yet the author still keeps you anxious at certain points in the novel. If you are looking for action, although this has some, I wouldn't really reccomend it. Even in the action parts it is not incredibly exciting. However, the author does a good job of creating tension and atmosphere beut you really have to follow the story and especially ...

grimridaz 16.07.2003 · Read full review
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This is one of the best films I've seen in ages, my mum's read the book and even she thinks the film was great. The scripting was brilliant as the actors gave out a very good performance, the acting really was good - it has to be when a film has little or no special effects. But the way the story built up and the film progressed was just 2nd to none, I havn't read the book, but John Grisham must be a good author - as this film is top class. The plot ...

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...next. you really get into the characters and feel that you know them personally afterwards. There is some humour in the film, and it has a happy ending, so happy it is quite unreal, i don't know if something like that could really happen. Anyway, the actors turn out great performances and make the film very enjoyable and sometimes can stir up emotions in the audience. As for action, there is not much of it, and Tommy Lee Jones, who normally does ...

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