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The Street Lawyer

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham
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By John Grisham
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Apr 26, 2005 | ISBN 9780385339094

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    About The Street Lawyer

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
     
    A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived—and where society’s powerless need an advocate for justice.
     
    But there’s one break Michael can’t make: from a secret that has floated up from the depths of Drake & Sweeney, from a confidential file that is now in Michael’s hands, and from a conspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael’s former partners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them, Michael Brock is the most dangerous man on the streets.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Street Lawyer

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
     
    A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived—and where society’s powerless need an advocate for justice.
     
    But there’s one break Michael can’t make: from a secret that has floated up from the depths of Drake & Sweeney, from a confidential file that is now in Michael’s hands, and from a conspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael’s former partners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them, Michael Brock is the most dangerous man on the streets.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Street Lawyer

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.

    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 panhandlers. No time for a conscience.

    But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. 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 shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney.

    The fast track 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.

    And a thief.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Street Lawyer

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
     
    A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived—and where society’s powerless need an advocate for justice.
     
    But there’s one break Michael can’t make: from a secret that has floated up from the depths of Drake & Sweeney, from a confidential file that is now in Michael’s hands, and from a conspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael’s former partners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them, Michael Brock is the most dangerous man on the streets.

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

    About The Street Lawyer

    He gave up the money.  He gave up the power.  Now all he has left is the law.

    Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm.  One step away from partnership, Michael has it all.  Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.

    A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices.  When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face–and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable.  Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived–and where society’s powerless need an advocate for justice.

    But there’s one break Michael can’t make: from a secret that has floated up from the depths of Drake & Sweeney, from a confidential file that is now in Michael’s hands, and from a conspiracy that has already taken lives.  Now Michael’s former partners are about to become his bitter enemies.  Because to them, Michael Brock is the most dangerous man on the streets….

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    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which… More about John Grisham

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which… More about John Grisham

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which… More about John Grisham

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which… More about John Grisham

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which… More about John Grisham

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 26, 2005 | 384 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | ISBN 9780385339094

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 23, 2010 | 432 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780440245957

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $35.00
    Published by Doubleday
    Feb 16, 1998 | 352 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385490993

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 16, 2010 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780307576088

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 06, 1998 | 619 Minutes | ISBN 9781415920848

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    Praise

    “Grisham at his plot-driven best.”—The Denver Post

    “An entertaining read with an important theme . . . The story unfolds in breakneck fashion with those wonderful pages-long passages of taut Grisham dialogue.”—Chicago Sun-Times

    “The plot surges forward, pulling us along as we turn those pages a mile a minute.”—San Francisco Chronicle

    “Powerful.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

    “The Street Lawyer hits the ground on a dead run.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

    “Intricately plotted . . . smoothly told . . . [a] moving exploration of the world of the homeless.”—Publishers Weekly

    “Riveting.”—Detroit News

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