5/29/2023 0 Comments The street lawyer![]() ![]() ![]() The book opens like so many Hollywood movies, with a bravura setpiece. Michael Brock, Grisham’s first person narrator, arrives at his swanky Washington, D.C., firm’s office for work one morning, tailed by a ragged homeless man. Like any resident of our nation’s capital, Michael is used to the homeless. They’re a nuisance, a daily pain the rich can afford to ignore. Almost bored with the situation, Michael asks for security to take care of the man.īefore that can happen, the man produces a gun and herds the high-priced lawyers into a room. Michael narrates the action, his jurist’s eye sharp when picking up other’s shortcomings and his own. The gunman, who tells them to call him simply Mister, asks them embarrassing questions like how much money they make versus how much they donate to the homeless. The results are damning, Michael agrees. JOHN GRISHAM’S ninth novel, The Street Lawyer, follows the basic formula of his other bestsellers, taking a jaded lawyer disillusioned with the American system of justice and–through a series of dire and not always believable events–leading him back to his original idealism through the true promise of those same institutions. ![]()
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