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 this a three day read at most. ... more

Another great Grisham plot - a young boy witnessing a suicide, then having no-one to turn 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 no fee? A little far fetched, perhaps... ... more

This book is essentially about a smarty pants 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 lawyers at their beck and call, to the point that they even had spies following Mark (the older boy) ... more

Mark Swain is a young kid with an old head. Brought up in a trailer park by his mother he has learnt to look after his family after his father inflicted abuse 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 ... more

I bought 'The Client' as a beach book while 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 to tremble. And the lawyer is even better. The character research he put into her must have taken ... more

This is another great thriller from John Grisham. It has become a film and this surprised nobody. It is about Mark Sway, a young boy who witnesses an attempted suicide. He tries to stop it 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 ... more

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 suicide and is grabbed by Jerome and dragged into the car, Mark manages to get away but finds his brother in severe shock. Ricky is taken to an ... more

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 consults a lawyer, Reggie Love, who sets out to protect Mark from the FBI whilst trying to shield him from the actual killer who wants to ensure ... more

Just finished reading this book. This starts of with a couple of kids having a secret smoke behind some trees. 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 the services of Reggie Love (for 1 ... more

This is a really good book. This follows a young boy who was taking ciggies with 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. Much wheeling and dealing is needed to ensure that the boy and ... more