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The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

ISBN: 9780099244929
Release Date: 14 Nov 1998
Average rating: (read by 52 members)

Categories: Crime & mystery , Adventure / thriller

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was 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 to walk around them on the sidewalk, and no time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this homeless man? Michael did some digging and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for twenty years. Then, Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; and the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted from the firm, and took a top secret file with him. He landed in the streets, a poverty lawyer, a street lawyer, an advocate for the homeless, and a thief.

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	soochoi
	Rated it 6 months ago

Grisham fails to ever make us believe that our heros might fail in their quest. Grisham is a competent writer, nice and breezy, and when he isn't preaching, his prose zooms along. However, a bit more DRAMA is called for too

	AndyM
	Rated it 6 months ago

One of Grisham's better books, just because a few of his characters are so real. And it's about helping out the disenfranchised.

	BillyFrank
	Rated it 1 years ago

Book is ok

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