The Client

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Summary: John Grisham strikes again!!!!!!
Review: The Client is about an eleven-year old child running away from the mob. Mark(the child)together with his younger brother had witnessed a suicide and came to know about the location of the dead senator. The younger brother fell into a coma due to shock and so left Mark alone to do the lying and the running both from the FBI and th mob. Mark read a poster in the hospital advertising a lawyer dealing in accidents and decide to hire himself a lawyer. He sneaks out of the hospital and goes to the building where the lawyer's office is.(which is coincidentally near to the hospital) The secretary asks him whether he had an accident and he tries to explain his situation but in the end gives up. He goes to another lawyer's office. The secretary who is a male humoured him this time and so let him see the lawyer who is a lady.(Funny when you think about it, the secretary is male while the lawyer is female) The lady lawyer listens to Mark's case for less than 30 minutes and PRESTO!! Mark hires a lawyer for about a dollar.(I think) Next, the mob threatens him in the lift, burns down his house and tries to move the senator's body while Mark has to go to court, play hide-and-seek with the mob and FBI, hide in the mortuary in the hospital, escape from 'jail', cry a lot and make important decisions that could cost him his life. Overall, I find the Client quite a readable book that can keep you awake through the night but the plot can get a bit ridiculous and too coincidental and times.

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Summary: This book will go down in history
Review: Grisham is a genius. All of new this already but yet another example of totally awsome book. Grisham keeps you reading until you get it all read, even if that is at 5 in the morning. I have three final words:READ THIS BOOK

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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: A great law story where kid's, the mafia, nasty lawyers and dangerous situations come together to form a great novel. One of Grisham's finest.

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Summary: It was very intense and exciting.
Review: A sassy 11 year old boy left alone to fight against the Mafia, hurting and confused..... Mark Sway is a young kid who accidentally recieves information about the hidden body of a United States senator. Now the killer of the body, a mafia gangster, is determined that Mark will keep its location a secret, or else.... Prosecuting lawyers will do anything to find the body to win their case, even endanger Mark into the hands of the killer. The only one who mark can confide in is his lawyer-for-a-dollar Reggie Love, who has been practing law for a total of four years. But Reggie has a hot streak and a feisty attitude and she is willing to do anything for her Client. This fast paced suspenceful book is an all nighter as you feel yourself being drawn into the book as well as the characters.

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Summary: The Best
Review: Awsome, I couldn't put it down. Grisham's best book. Action Packed I loved it one of my favorite books. I really liked the story, and wonderd why it doesn't have a PART II

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Summary: Perfect story line for a great book.
Review: The book began with a bang and ended on the cutting edge of stardom. Yet, he didn't it all the way. He began perfect but ended in a sloppy rush. Grisham could have made this his absoulte best, but faied at the end.

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Summary: Still Grisham's 2nd Best
Review: "The Client" had me enraptured from page 1 as I stood in a bookstore. Great plot. Interesting, believable characters. And plenty of page-turning action and suspense. The movie was okay, but Grisham does such a great job with the narration of this novel that the reader can create much better images in his mind's eye from the pages of the book than anything recreated for the silver screen. I have read most of Grisham's books, and the two I haven't read I saw as films. "The Client" is still his second best, behind "A Time To Kill." Highly recommended reading, even if you saw, or even didn't enjoy, the movie

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Summary: On/off suspense, a great (but predicteble) ending
Review: A D.A. out for a conviction. A Lawyer out of her League. A Young boy who knew to much. I like how Grisham gets this book running right from the start. Ricky realizes older brother Mark has cigarettes, Ricky wants a smoke, they go smoke in the woods. Then the book starts. The 11 and 8 year old kids see a Black Cadillac come up, then an attempted suicide. Mark tries to stop it. eventually he gets caught, learns too much, and is hunted By Barry "Blade" Muldanno and the mofia, and must answer to the FBI. Sometimes the book is slow, some times it is a thrilling page-turner. A great ending.

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Summary: My review is basically a review written by an inspired fan.
Review: The Client was an awesome book. I am 11 years old, and this book helped me figure out what I am going to with my life. I am going to become a lawyer because I like to work hard and Reggie Love, in this book worked really hard. I also liked it because it has no pictures. I like that because I love to imagine myself as the main character, and use the pictures in my brain rather than in the book. I only rated it a nine because I've read most of John Grisham's books, and he's done a lot of better ones, such as Runaway Jury, and Pelican Brief. He and Charles Dickens are my favorite authors and as long as I continue to find books written by them that I haven't read, I will treasure every moment of each and every one of them. Thank you for your time

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Summary: Too Long for Its Story
Review: Grisham has written a number of great legal thrillers, but this isn't one of them. The story revolves around a young boy who witnessed a crime and is now being hunted by organized criminals. He gets help from a lawyer, who tries to make a bargain with the state for his testimony. Unfortunately, the final solution which the boy and his family accept was the same as one proposed and rejected by the family several hundred pages before. The book is fast-paced, and even quite tense and intriguing in some places, so it is not a book to avoid. You just must look past the obvious solution and the cop-out ending