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Mark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, how to smoke Virginia Slims heisted from Mom's purse. He's a pretty upright kid--he's determined to protect his brother from drugs, and he once defended his mom with a baseball bat.

The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a guy trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his Mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buried him in the concrete under his garage in New Orleans. Then Jerome puts a bullet in his own head. Little Ricky flips out, and so does Barry the Blade Muldanno, who doesn't want blustery U.S. attorney Reverend Roy Foltrigg to find the corpse and bust him. Caught in a ruthless game between the Mob and the amoral authorities, Mark's family has no defense in the world except Reggie Love, a 50ish divorcée who has just turned her life around by becoming a lawyer. Does she have what it takes to help Mark beat the system? The life-or-death chase is on!

Mark has seen a lot of movies, and he sees life in cinematic terms. So does Grisham. Even if this novel had never been filmed, it would still be a really good, fast-paced movie. Its literary limitation is also its filmlike virtue: The Client is a rush. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.



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Fans of the bestselling Grisham will be pleased to note that he is once more on Firm ground: his latest legal thriller offers a clever, compelling plot coupled with two singular protagonists sure to elicit readers' empathy. Eleven-year-old Mark Sway, taking his kid brother for a smoke behind their Memphis trailer park, witnesses the suicide of a lawyer "driven crazy" by a lethal secret. Before he dies, the man confides to Mark where the body of a recently murdered U.S. senator lies buried, and the game's afoot. Trailed by the police, the FBI and assorted Mafia types (the deceased politico was the victim of "a successful New Orleans street thug"), Mark retains--for one dollar--the services of Reggie Love, a 50ish female lawyer. This uncommon attorney-client relationship adds an affecting, unusually humanistic layer to the novel's tension-filled events. Mark, raised by a divorced mother and wise beyond his years, thinks chiefly in terms of movies and TV; Reggie, a street-smart survivor of an acrimonious divorce, is often unsure whether to hug or slug her precocious client. True to form, Grisham employs just enough foreshadowing to keep the suspense rolling ("Neither of them could know that . . . "), and propels his action at the requisite breakneck pace. Occasional plot improbabilities and stylistic quibbles--a few fuzzy characterizations; overstatement of already obvious points; Mark's sporadic adult phraseology--will not deter readers from enjoying a rousing read. 950,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; Reader's Digest Condensed Book selection.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Tom Sawyer Takes on the Mafia, the FBI, and the Courts, Juil 21 2008
If you only read one legal thriller by John Grisham, I strongly urge you to choose The Client. It's a remarkable book that will reward your patience, pique your curiosity, and keep you guessing until almost the very end.

The client has to be the most unusual legal thriller every written. The book's indomitable hero, Mark Sway, is an 11-year-old with a lot of guts and a desire to do the right thing. John Grisham takes that premise and pushes it to the limit by teaming Mark with the only lawyer that Grisham ever wrote positively about, Reggie Love. In the process, Grisham entertains with the petty foibles and vanities of the legal "powers that be" in a way that will make you wish that nice people worked at the law.

Enchanting books have heroes and heroines who intrigue and inspire us. Mark Sway and Reggie Love are well designed for those purposes. Mark is that wonderful combination of scamp, optimist, and idealist that Mark Twain first imagined in the character of Tom Sawyer. Reggie Love is a composite of the loving concern of everyone's favorite aunt combined with the toughness and smarts of Perry Mason.

The Mafia characters are bozos. The FBI agents are cretins. The prosecutors are sleaze balls. The other characters fade into the woodwork except for Reggie's favorite judge.

Have a ball!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Tom Sawyer Takes on the Mafia, the FBI, and the Courts, Juil 21 2008
This review is from: The Client (Paperback)
If you only read one legal thriller by John Grisham, I strongly urge you to choose The Client. It's a remarkable book that will reward your patience, pique your curiosity, and keep you guessing until almost the very end.

The client has to be the most unusual legal thriller every written. The book's indomitable hero, Mark Sway, is an 11-year-old with a lot of guts and a desire to do the right thing. John Grisham takes that premise and pushes it to the limit by teaming Mark with the only lawyer that Grisham ever wrote positively about, Reggie Love. In the process, Grisham entertains with the petty foibles and vanities of the legal "powers that be" in a way that will make you wish that nice people worked at the law.

Enchanting books have heroes and heroines who intrigue and inspire us. Mark Sway and Reggie Love are well designed for those purposes. Mark is that wonderful combination of scamp, optimist, and idealist that Mark Twain first imagined in the character of Tom Sawyer. Reggie Love is a composite of the loving concern of everyone's favorite aunt combined with the toughness and smarts of Perry Mason.

The Mafia characters are bozos. The FBI agents are cretins. The prosecutors are sleaze balls. The other characters fade into the woodwork except for Reggie's favorite judge.

Have a ball!
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5.0étoiles sur 5 The Client, Jui 7 2004
This review is from: The Client (Paperback)
The Client is a really good book. Yet, it was really short.I think I read it in a couple of days. The bad thing about it was the ending. It didn't explain much of what happened.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Grisham, You Could Do Better
Grisham writes good books, but this one is exceptional. This is an exception to his other books. This book is INCREDIBLY unrealistic. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Good Book
This book was set in a little town. This was a very well written book about a teen who watches a man kill himself. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 This is a cool book!
I really thought that this was a cool book! I had seen parts of the movie first and I think that that might have made it seem more real. Read more
Publié le Mai 12 2004 par Emily

2.0étoiles sur 5 Expected so much more
Rather disappointing after the fast pace and cliffhanger action of The Pelican Brief. I don't mind stereotypes and ham acting (see, I keep thinking about his books as movies) but... Read more
Publié le Mars 19 2004 par D. Wijngaarden

1.0étoiles sur 5 unimpressed
I'm a college student studying abroad in Germany, and starved for some english reading material I picked up The Client in a bookstore here. Read more
Publié le Mars 15 2004 par grubby15

4.0étoiles sur 5 Sophisticated and perfected
John Grisham is famous for his ability for making a story so live and real. It makes you draw into the story even more. Reading this story was almost like seeing a movie! Read more
Publié le Fév 16 2004 par justin

4.0étoiles sur 5 I'd Hire This Lawyer
You have to suspend your disbelief a bit with the main character being 11 years old but outwitting the FBI and the Mob, but hey, it's a book. Read more
Publié le Fév 14 2004 par B. Steele

5.0étoiles sur 5 Very good
I read this book for my government class. I really enjoyed it right from the beginning. He is such a phenomanal author who has made a great impact in todays society. Read more
Publié le Fév 6 2004 par Ashley Burnett

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the best
I started reading John Grisham's book's when I was 10. This was the first one I read and I loved it. It only took me 3 day's to read it. That show's you how I loved it. Read more
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