Book info

• Title The Associate
• Author John Grisham
• Year 2009
• Genre Thriller

Kyle McAvoy is one of the greatest legal students of his generation. He has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from the past that threatens to destroy his entire livelihood. When this secret catches up with him in the form of a compromising video, Kyle is left with an impossible choice. He can take a job in New York at the largest law firm in the world and share the sordid secrets of its biggest trial to date. Or his past will be exposed to the masses. It's a deadly game of blackmail. And someone is making him play.

Thoughts

Hmm, I’m a big John Grisham fan but I’m not sure this one hit the mark for me. For a start, everyone involved was kind of dubious so it was hard to know who to root for. A sexual assault being at the heart of the issue was a problem - it was obviously serious enough for the protagonist to not want it going public, but at the same time we were supposed to be hoping he got away with it all. At the same time, obviously don’t want corporate espionage to go unnoticed as well. It was well written and easy to devour but ultimately I was just left unmoved by all the characters.

Rating: 2 / 5