The Street Lawyer: A Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 16, 2010 - Fiction - 464 pages
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
 
A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and suddenly Michael is willing to do the unthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michael is leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker once lived—and where society’s powerless need an advocate for justice.
 
But there’s one break Michael can’t make: from a secret that has floated up from the depths of Drake & Sweeney, from a confidential file that is now in Michael’s hands, and from a conspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael’s former partners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them, Michael Brock is the most dangerous man on the streets.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
12
Section 3
22
Section 4
30
Section 5
43
Section 6
52
Section 7
60
Section 8
69
Section 22
211
Section 23
221
Section 24
231
Section 25
238
Section 26
248
Section 27
259
Section 28
269
Section 29
281

Section 9
77
Section 10
89
Section 11
98
Section 12
108
Section 13
117
Section 14
126
Section 15
137
Section 16
150
Section 17
158
Section 18
167
Section 19
180
Section 20
189
Section 21
202
Section 30
290
Section 31
300
Section 32
307
Section 33
314
Section 34
323
Section 35
333
Section 36
342
Section 37
348
Section 38
361
Section 39
367
Section 40
373
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About the author (2010)

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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