The Client (Level 4)

<p>In a weedy lot on the outskirts of memphis, two&nbsp;&nbsp;boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the&nbsp;&nbsp;curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother&nbsp;&nbsp;were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when a chance&nbsp;&nbsp;encounter with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing&nbsp;&nbsp;a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of&nbsp;&nbsp;the most sought-after dead body in America. Now&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad&nbsp;&nbsp;and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime.&nbsp;&nbsp;And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love,&nbsp;&nbsp;who has been a lawyer for all of four years.&nbsp;&nbsp;Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make&nbsp;&nbsp;Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep&nbsp;&nbsp;him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect&nbsp;&nbsp;her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble&nbsp;&nbsp;that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them&nbsp;&nbsp;both their lives.</p> <p>The Firm catapulted Grisham into the ranks of this country's most popular authors, spending 47 weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list and 18 weeks as number one in paperback. Now Grisham has crafted another gripping tale of legal intrigue. A young boy is inadvertantly present at the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans defense attorney on the eve of the biggest trial of his career. </p>

Author(s): John Grisham  

ISBN 10: 0582417775
ISBN 13: 9780582417779
Pages: 59
Format: Paperback
Publication: February 2000
Edition: ESL Reader Edition