num_pages: 373
description: If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy.Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York Pennsylvania. He excelled in college was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal and his future has limitless potential.But Kyle has a secret a dark one an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret though falls into the hands of the wrong people and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want even if it's a job most law students can only dream about.Three months after leaving Yale Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world where in addition to practicing law he is expected to lie steal and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison if not get him killed.With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains from drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist Baxter Tate to quiet former math teacher Dale who shares Kyle's cubicle at the law firm The Associate is vintage Grisham.
language: English
title: The Associate
publisher: Doubleday Books