From riches to rags, and peace of mind

This is a story of a young lawyer Michael Brock, on the verge of a partnership in a giant law firm, Drake and Sweeney. The money was good and work getting better until he came across a violent encounter with a homeless man. Michael starts investigating about him, only to get introduced to a whole new world of the homeless, of shelters, drugs and crime on streets.

The experience transforms Michael. He is no longer able to work in his plush office while the people outside are dying. Mordecai Green, a lawyer at a street clinic offers him a job for a partly salary, and Michael promptly quits Drake and Sweeney. Some systematic inquiry leads him to a dirty secret, one involving his own firm. Meanwhile the firm is preparing a case against Michael…

Grisham has mixed the right amounts of fiction and reality – divorce, street life, drugs, killings, romance, thefts and courtrooms. Only at some places does one finds excessive analysis in black and white, picturing the rich evil lawyers and poor innocents on the streets.

This was the second John Grisham novel that I read and definitely loved it.

¶ Blogged by Priyank Thatte | Tags: Books, Review