The Client

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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 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 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...

sharkman 04.04.2001 · Read review
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What lengths must be taken to protect The Client?

Advantages: Fantastic author, informative and interesting the whole way through.
Disadvantages: None

...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 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...

katyeverett 26.07.2009 · Read review
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The client

Advantages: Original Pacey thriller
Disadvantages: none

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hmd3 15.02.2005 · Read review
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A small boy in big trouble!

Advantages: fast paced enjoyable film
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...This is a film only review. I pretty much have enjoyed reading most of John Grisham's books and generally I think that they adapt well to the big screen. I read The Client many years ago and also watched the film, but it was such a long time that when I saw it on Film Four the other day it was like watching it for the first time. The film centres on a young boy called Mark Sway who, along with his younger brother, witnesses a man take his own life. However, this is no ordinary suicide though, as the man who killed himself had links to the mob. Suddenly, everyone from the district attorney to the mob to the media, is suddenly interested in what Mark might have seen or heard. Mark realises that one way or another he is in big trouble and sets out to find himself a lawyer even though he has no money. Eventually, he finds a woman lawyer...

kingfisher111 07.09.2009 · Read review
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50 Characters Is Waaaaaay Too Restrictive

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...I'm not a fan of John Grisham novels, I've read a few until I realised they were pretty much the same thing rehashed over and over, but sadly, or not depending upon your viewpoint, they do translate very easily into everything Hollywood requires from it's legal thrillers - lots of action, not much in the way of originality and the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner. They also seem to attract some of Hollywood's finest and with Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon taking up the lead adult roles here and Joel Schumacher(OK, 'finest' is a little tenuous there, but he does a few good ones!) planting himself in the director's chair, 1994's "The Client" is no exception. Championing the underdog once more, Grisham's "The Client" focuses upon Mark Sway(Brad Renfro), a kid who finds himself embroiled in a murder case after turning up in...

wampyrii 03.08.2002 · Read review
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...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....

MarcusPerkins 12.09.2000 · Read review
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Yet again Grisham has wrote an excellent book

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

...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 specialises in children cases but has never encountered something as bad as this as he is under threat 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...

christopherj84 05.02.2001 · Read review
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Poor child...

Advantages: Thrilling, entertaining, a must read
Disadvantages: None noted.

...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), and his brother, right up to his hospital room. 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...

Whizzdom 14.11.2007 · Read review
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The Easiest Most reliable FTP Client

Advantages: Easy to use, Reliable and Free
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...That may be over the top praise for WSFTP produced by Ipswitch, but I've tried a couple of different products over the years and have always returned to WSFTP. I use the product at home and at work and it's always fast and reliable and doesn't take up lots of system resources. ~~ So What is it? Its an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client, which is an essential utility for anyone transferring files via the internet. In Ipswitch's own words: Transfer Files Quickly and Reliably. = WSFTP Pro is a Windows-based file transfer client application that is used to transfer files between your local PC and a remote FTP server. With WSFTP Pro, you can connect to any FTP server, browse through directories and files, and transfer files (upload or download) in either direction. Intuitive, Easy...

mikeydred 09.05.2001 (28.08.2001) · Read review
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Yahoo! Messenger - The epic messenger client

Advantages: Free, easy communication with family or friends, lots of enjoyment, really professional features
Disadvantages: Sending unexpected spam messages etc, Hacking, Adding bots on the chatroom, Slow connection

..."Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!" - Wikipedia.org Yahoo! Messenger is a great messenger with tons of features. It's really popular all over the planet. It has a lot of features and the best part of it IT'S FREE! Let's start with the features. The YM skins, it has tons of skins out there. It may suit your style as well. Next, freedom of making status message. Unlike other messenger clients, it doesn?t allow to make your own status message. Third one, you can make your very own avatar starting from being a fashionista up to a so called rocker. Then, you can also send tons of emoticons to your buddies, and if you?re not satisfied with the built in emoticons on YM. You can find on WWW the hidden emoticons. And if you?re not fan of emoticons you can also use...

ToxicDoll 04.07.2009 · Read review
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