One of the best books I've read in a while!

3.0 to 3.5 stars. My first Grisham novel, I thought this was a fun, fast read with a very interesting plot. Being an attorney (in fact reading this while I was a first year law student) I think both helped andhindered my enjoyment of the book. On the positive side, I really liked the setting and relate to Mitch. On the negative side, I was also able to see the "flaws" in some of the major plot points. However, overall I enjoyed it.

This book is very good! I like it very much! Its a first book this genre, I read. I was curious, so read. I recommend this to everyone :)

This Grisham classic brings readers to a small law firm that is very wealthy. This elite law firm who is one of the best tax law firm hides many secrets. Mitch McDeere is new and has no idea of these secrets until he is contacted by the FBI. They want him to give them important papers. Will Mitch keep working at the firm and live a wealthy life with his wife...Or will he help his country and risk death.

I really enjoyed this novel although I don't think that the finale lived up to the excellent start. I have seen the film and for me it did edge the book.

The book flows in the usual Grisham style and is a very easy read. I love the way he writes and find that I nearly always finish them within 2 days.

The Firm by John Grisham
The Firm by John Grisham will draw you into a situation where the choices you make not only affect you, but also the people who depend on you. When a young lawyer named Mitch McDeere has to choose between staying with a corrupt business or doing the right thing.The decisions that are made throughout the book are told by the lawyer Mitch.
The story is centered around Mitch McDeere. He finished 3rd in his class at Harvard Law School. All the top law firms are trying to get Mitch to work for them. He decides to join a small firm in Memphis called Bendini, Lambert & Locke. They offer him a deal he finds hard to refuse.
Upon joining this firm, Mitch would be paid $80,000 a year with regular increases, and the firm supplying him with a brand new BMW, a low rate mortgage, and clearing his student debts. Mitch comes from a poor family and is extremely proud of himself for managing to get such a great job. He and Abby, his wife, move to Memphis to start their new life, and for Mitch to start his new job.
Mitch has an older brother named Ray who was charged and found guilty of 2nd degree murder. Ray is fluent in at least four languages that he has studied before and during his prison sentence. He often speaks Spanish with his brother, although Mitch isn’t as good as Ray is at it. Ray often talked about visiting different countries: “I’ve been reading about the Greek isles. I plan to go there soon.” Mitch thought this was funny because Ray still had seven years left until parole.
Two of Mitch's colleagues die in a scuba diving accident in the Cayman Islands the week he starts at the firm. During a memorial service at the firm for them, Mitch notices plaques commemorating three other attorneys who died while working at the firm. He was suspicious so he hired a private investigator named Eddie Lomax, an ex-cell mate of his brother Ray, to investigate the deaths of the attorneys.
Mitch isn’t the only person involved in his plan. He also gets help from his wife and Eddie Lomax’s previous secretary, Tammy. Even at the end Wayne Tarrance, a FBI agent, is baffled at Tammy’s involvement in the plan: “I have a question”, Wayne asked her. “Where did he find you? This would have been impossible without you.”

Mitch was always one step ahead of everyone but little did he know that he would have to take down the people that hired him. The book makes you want to read it to find out how Mitch gets himself out of his little problems and also his final big problem. I like the way John Grisham makes Mitch seem like a normal person, and then he becomes smarter than everyone around him.
Even though this story is fictional, you feel as though John Grisham has explained it as though he had experienced it before. This book makes you wonder what you would have done if you were Mitch, as he tries to keep his bosses, the Mafia, from finding out about him talking to the FBI.
I think that the theme of the story is about making choices you will have to live with. The Firm is a good example of how large corporations can deceive and manipulate their employees with money and blackmail. This book shows how deception and betrayal are everywhere, including the people who are supposed to fight for justice.
Page Count: 501
Genre: Legal Thriller

This isn't the best written mystery ever (Grisham has a tendency to forget about closing all plot lines) but it's a great page turner and remains one of his best.

Well this book is very well written. John Grisham books never disappoint. Great character development. Book so much better than the film.
I highly recommend this book. One to pack in your suitcase for the laying by the swimming pool. I will definitely be taking the next one away with me.

Overrated. This book was so stupid, the characters are all stupid, the plot was stupid, and something else I am forgetting to mention was stupid. It read it fast, it reads fast, and when I finished I felt stupid. I don't like any of the characters, why should I? The worlds most handsome smartest lawyer who has the hottest nicest wife ever (oh no but he had to eat Chinese food in law school and didn't have a BMW like the other kids so we feel bad for him) and other terribly cliche aspects of the life goes to work for the evilest scheming old mafia sneaky bad men, he bangs a lady on a beach (not his wife), he finds out the scheme because he is the smartest, bad men try to kill him, he runs away to the beach (OMG HIS MOM WORKS IN A DINER how poetic) with his rugged smart ex-con but innocent brother and his brother's gum chewing pretty (like slutty around the block but still pretty type) smart savvy tough talking former private dick secretary, his wife wants to bang him and on the beach ans he says he's never done that before. WINK. END. STUPID.

I read this back when it was first released in 1991! At the time I was a teenager who was getting on a plane to visit relatives and I needed something to read to pass the time. THE FIRM distracted me the for the long plane trip.

Just recently I was at the used bookstore looking for a book for my teenage son to read while he is gone for the next 10 weeks working at a Boy Scout camp as a lifeguard. The series he is reading wasn't available so I started searching for an alternative. The only books I could think of were my romance books and I'm sure no 16 year old boy wants to read his mom's romance books-



I had to think back to my 'before romance reading days' to come up with something. I grabbed this book and packed it for him.

A week and half ago we had to have him at the camp by 9 am which meant we had to be on the road by 6 a.m. to make it there with no time to spare. *on a side note...the camp is located on the Oregon coast. The camp owns 2 miles of beach.* After we dropped him off we started heading home along the coastline.


photo taken by my husband

We pulled into a small town and found a used bookstore because we needed something to listening to while passing the time in the car. We saw this book on audio cassette and bought it. Listening to it made me laugh because it had some cheesy music that transitioned the scenes. I'll be curious to see if my son will even read it. The last time I talked to him he had not even cracked the book open.

I'm sticking to my original rating because at the time I thought this book was the BOMB.

Tanto el libro como la película son muy recomendables.

"When all your money comes from one source, you tend to be loyal to that source"

During the early 90’s, John Grisham dominated the legal fiction category and The Firm is a true classic in that area. A young lawyer, Mitch McDeere is smoothly enticed into working for a quiet Memphis law firm that unbeknownst to him is actually a front for a money laundering operation run by the mob. Nice one McDeere, have you really never heard someone say “If it looks too good to be true, etc etc?” Anyway, he swallows the setup hook, line, sinker and pretty much the whole fishing boat until he finally figures out there is something wrong here. Seriously? Yes, something is very wrong indeed and he starts to plan an escape route when he finds out the FBI is not very helpful either in offering a safe way out and solving his predicament.
I read this book for the first time shortly after it was published in 1991 and remember I enjoyed it immensely. My taste has probably shifted slightly towards other genres but it was still great to read it again. I won’t spoil anything for any first time readers, but it is definitely worth reading it. Some of Grisham’s later works (King of Torts for example) as not nearly as well-written or entertaining.