The Associate

ISBN-13: 9780345525727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str.

John Grisham

Opis

Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they ll use to ruin him unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he ll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there s a catch. Kyle won t be working "for" the firm but "against" it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle, with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery, may be able to escape alive."