The Firm
By: John Grisham.
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780099830009
Copyright date: 1991
First sentence: 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.
Description: The law student

He was young and had his dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America.

The firm

They were small, but well-respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams - eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car and the job are his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new bedroom, the mysterious deaths of colleagues, and the millions of dollars of mob money pouring through the office into the Cayman Islands, dollars that the FBI will do anything to trace.

Now Mitch stands alone in the place where dreams end and nightmares begin...
--back cover
Notes: Originally published, London: Century, 1991.
UK/AUS