The Client - John Grisham > Reviews

Advantages: Original Pacey thriller
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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 ... Read review

Advantages: great read, story, twists
Disadvantages: not much

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Well-written, moving, excellent plotline
Disadvantages: I missed half my holiday as a result!

...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 ... Read review

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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 ... Read review

Advantages: A Good Read, but different.
Disadvantages: Could have had a better ending

...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 ... Read review

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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 Love. ... Read review

Advantages: easy to read and exciting
Disadvantages: in some ways similar to his other books

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Well written, appealing story
Disadvantages: none

...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 help, ... Read review

Advantages: Very well written, interesting, exciting story
Disadvantages: fairly long- unless your a hardcore thriller reader!

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: aMazing story
Disadvantages: none

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Unique
Disadvantages: Little Action

...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 action ... Read review