Author: John Grisham
Translator: Young-mok Jeong
Publisher: Sigongsa
Hardcover | 490pp | 218*155mm
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About This Book
America's most popular author is arguably its most popular crusader as well,
tilting his pen against myriad targets, including big law (The Firm, etc.), big
tobacco (The Runaway Jury), big insurance (The Rainmaker) and now, in perhaps
his sweetest, shortest novel, against anyone, big or little, who treats the
homeless as less than human. The expected powerhouse opening involves the
hostage-taking - by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister - of nine
attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. Among the nine is narrator
Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police
sniper blows away Mister's head. "I'm alive! I'm alive," Michael cries like
Ebenezer Scrooge, but, like Scrooge, this greedy hotshot is ripe for a moral
awakening. The next day, Michael visits the shabby offices of Mister's attorney,
Mordecai Green, who explains that Mister and others had been illegally evicted
from makeshift housing on orders from a real-estate development company
represented by Michael's firm. Inspired by Green and shaken by his firm's
complicity, Michael volunteers at a homeless shelter. When a family he meets
there dies on the street, and turns out to have been among the evictees, Michael
quits his job, goes to work for Green and, using as evidence a file he steals
from the firm, aims to sue his former employer on behalf of the evictees. In
turn, the firm places Michael in its crosshairs, pressuring him to give up the
file through legal maneuvers, having him arrested and hints of darker means. The
cat-and-mouse between Michael and the firm is vintage Grisham, intricately
plotted, but the emphasis in this smoothly told, baldly manipulative tale is
less on action and suspense, which are moderate, than on Michael's change of
heart and moving exploration of the world of the homeless. Dickens would be well
pleased, and so will Grisham's fans.
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