The Firm
by John Grisham
Certified Public Accountantsbar examinationsfuneralsprivate investigatorsFBI
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THE SENIOR PARTNER studied the résumé for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper.
About this book
The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller by American writer John Grisham. It was his second book and the first which gained wide popularity. ---------- Also contained in: - [Novels (Firm / Pelican Brief)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL76969W) - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 3 1991](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20544104W) - [Selections from Reader's Digest condensed books and other Reader's Digest Publications](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16059729W) [1]: https://www.jgrisham.com/the-firm/
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Certified Public Accountantsbar examinationsfuneralsprivate investigatorsFBIwhite-collar crime
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Memphis (Tenn.)United StatesHarvard UniversityAmericaWestern Kentucky UniversityTennesseeVietnamNew YorkChicagoMemphisCayman IslandsWashington D.C.19441980s
About the author
John Grisham
8 February 1955
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, speciali…
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