Playing For Pizza - John Grisham
For starters, this book is a pleasantdiversion from the legal thrillers that Grisham is so famous for. And, as usual, it was voted the #1 New York Times bestseller.
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Book Review [The Street Lawyer]
The Street Lawyer - John Grisham
Michael Brock was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant law firm with eight hundred 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 the homeless. No time for a conscience, or to find his long lost one.But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him in his tracks. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who’d been in and out of homeless shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney, the seemingly perfect firm a budding lawyer could want to work at.The fast track to money and status derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer.
In my opinion, this is the best novel Grisham has written. It tells about the not-so-typical tale of riches to rags, the high life that Michael Brock had sacrificed to help those who really require his help.
