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The Associate

By John Grisham, Erik Singer (Reader)

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Book Description

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait
until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate

Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, Continue

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait
until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate

Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.

But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.

Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.

With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains—from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle’s “cubicle” at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country—and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.


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Critics

  • Now where have I read this before?

    The Associate is a novel about a brilliant young American law student with a Scottish surname and a butch forename who surprises everyone with his choice of the law firm where he is to train. What we know, though his friends don't, is that he has bee ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • The Associate

    Poor Kyle McAvoy. All the brilliant fledgling lawyer wants to do is help disadvantaged people fight the system, but a skeleton lurking in his closet from his student days has come back to haunt him. Some very bad guys have got hold of an embarrassing ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    Don't waste time ..

    This is another bad novel from Grisham. Frankly, it could be written by another person. THe plot is unconvincing to begin with. What is expected to be a climax at the end turns out to be a big disappointment. Save your time and read something else ....

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    Wslching said on Feb 9, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    The story is weak, especially comparing to Grisham's earlier work. Each of his novel seems to aim for certain aspect of the judicial system and to try get a point across. I am not quite sure what this one is getting at. The story does move at a very fast pace as usual, which augments the disappointm ... (continue)

    The story is weak, especially comparing to Grisham's earlier work. Each of his novel seems to aim for certain aspect of the judicial system and to try get a point across. I am not quite sure what this one is getting at. The story does move at a very fast pace as usual, which augments the disappointment when one reaches the end prematurely.

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    Cyl414 said on Aug 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    Kyle, the hero of this thriller, has a secret that he would rather forget, but someone (or rather some organisation) found out and used it against him, threatening him to spy on his own company.

    If Kyle had chosen the right course of action, as he did at the end of the novel, the story would ... (continue)

    Kyle, the hero of this thriller, has a secret that he would rather forget, but someone (or rather some organisation) found out and used it against him, threatening him to spy on his own company.

    If Kyle had chosen the right course of action, as he did at the end of the novel, the story would have concluded by the end of chapter 1. Alas, life is not always that simple and it is not easy to act rationally in a difficult situation.

    The story was a bit of a let down as I expected a more involved and exciting novel from Grisham.

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    Sawyho said on Mar 17, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Mal fin

    Empieza como cualquier novela de Grisham, cosntruye una trama que te va llenando de intriga y suspenso y pero el fin es aburtido, me esperaba un fin que nos tiene acostrumbrado pero este al parecer no tenia muchas ganas de acabar el libro.
    Es entretenido de leer pero decepcionante final

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    Rdmorante said on Jun 2, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • Plot with great potential, but with a lame ending

    The plot has great potential. Smart Yale law student was blackmailed and forced to become a spy in the largest law firm in the world.

    The book provides detailed description on how the law firm torture their associates. Work like hell. Boring tasks. Unlimited billing. Constant humiliation. These ar ... (continue)

    The plot has great potential. Smart Yale law student was blackmailed and forced to become a spy in the largest law firm in the world.

    The book provides detailed description on how the law firm torture their associates. Work like hell. Boring tasks. Unlimited billing. Constant humiliation. These are all interesting.

    However, the ending is lame. It ended so suddenly that you wonder: What!? This is the end? What happened?

    I would not recommend it unless you are really interested in how associates are being tortured by their law firms.

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    EL said on Aug 22, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | 2 feedbacks

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