Recently graduated lawyer with a bit of a checkered past lands
a sweet job at a high powered firm who pays off all his bill, expects 100hr a
week until he finds out their real clients are mostly crooks. Oh wait, that’s
John Grishman’s The Firm.
No Mitch McDeere here. It’s Tom Ford. Kid thief whose goal
as a lawyer is to earn enough money to pay off the medical bill of her
cancer-stricken mom. Where’s dad? In jail (remember, McDeere’s brother was in
jail). Ford gets a job with a lobbying group in Washington. The goal of the
boss is influence with and over a shady group known as The 500, the 500 most
powerful movers/shakers around.
Ford displays considerable talent at getting information
that can be used as ammunition to get most anything through Congress or not through, depending on what's best for his boss. His
skills get him promoted pretty quickly, right up to a move by his boss to steer
a couple congressmen and a supreme court justice to modify some laws that will
make it possible for a Serbian war criminal access to the US. Fords issue is
whether he should “Die in infamy,
honor intact or live in glory, corrupted.” What to do . .
Sounds a lot
like The Firm, right? And Hollywood has picked up on it, too. This debut book
by Quirk is a very fast read written remarkably similar to the style of early
Grisham, which wasn’t all bad. Doesn’t break any new ground, but is an easy way
to spend a few hours with a kick ass legal thriller.
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