Il ricatto
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788804598282 (880459828X)
Publish date: January 2010
Publisher: Mondadori
Pages no: 390
Edition language: Italian
I picked up this book a few months ago at a town wide rummage sale for an insanely low price. If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in "The Firm," waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, "The Associate" Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in...
(I just came to know that there is an actual law firm in New York City that is a spitting image of the one in Grisham's book. A friend's daughter interned there and the 12 hour days, working weekends, meals and transport charged to clients, are real. The junior staff average about 2 years and burn...
Extremely disappointed.
Even though the "thriller" bit started right off the bat, the actual unfolding of the story (background) felt slow to me.The main gist of the story is that Kyle McEvoy was about to graduate (law) and was, basically, on top of his class. Due to some "questionable" past event, Kyle was being blackmai...
I don't know if I've ever read a John Grisham novel before, and this was pretty much what I expected. Entertaining, fairly fast-moving, shallow plot and characters. I didn't mind read it, I wouldn't avoid John Grisham novels in the future, but I won't seek them out either.(Some sloppy editing in a c...