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The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized piece of work. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was initally only marginally successful and did not bring the author the attention of the general public. Two years later, in 1993, a movie adaptation starring Tom Cruise was released.

Plot

The novel focuses on Mitch McDeere, a poor man who has just graduated third in his class at Harvard Law School. Mitch is married to his girlfriend from college, Abby. Mitch's brother Ray is serving a prison term.

He has offers from law firms in New York and Chicago, but he is seduced by a promise of great pay, a house, and a BMW from a small law firm in Memphis.

Initially it was great in Memphis, with great opportunities and the chance to become a partner after only a few years. Then, two of Mitch's colleagues die in an accident. An FBI agent, Tarrance, confronts Mitch. Mitch learns gradually that the Firm is actually a cover for the Mafia. New lawyers are successfully lured into the firm with promises of secure wealth. By the time a lawyer knows its actual operations, he cannot leave. No lawyer has actually quit the firm alive. Mitch learns his house, office and even his car are bugged.

Mitch makes a deal with the FBI, in which he is promised 2 million dollars and the release of his brother if he collects enough evidence to indict the members of the firm. Meanwhile, the firm becomes suspicious, and through a mole in the FBI they discover Mitch's plan. Once Mitch learns of this, he stops trusting the FBI and runs from both the police and mafia, taking his wife and his brother with him. He then proceeds to steal approximately 10 million dollars from various accounts belonging to the firm. Mitch manages to escape to the Carribeans, while the FBI gets the evidence they need to bust the firm. At the end, Mitch and his family are shown quietly enjoying their newfound wealth in the Carribean.

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