Book Review: The Firm by John Grisham
The Firm is an insightful book that dives deep into the reality of how an ambitious, intelligent, and hard working young person with a dream can easily have everything turned around for him due to corruption, bad management, and things not in his hands. It also looks into systematic corruption and how it works to favor a few, and how dangerously it operates.
A young, intelligent, and ambitious lawyer. Mitch McDeere graduated among the top five in his Harvard law school class. Upon graduation, he is offered jobs by top law firms in the United States, from Wall Street to Washington. Mitch, however, seduced by money and wealth joins a small tax firm in Memphis that offers him more than he could ever hope for in any other firm.
Mitch, like most of us, upon landing his first dream job, is hard working, putting in more hours than other junior lawyer in the firm. He goes above and beyond to do the work he believes is honest. Things quickly then start to turn sketchy, as the firm he works is questioned as corrupt.
Mitch McDeere is then at a position of questioning himself at whether he should do the honest and ethical thing of further investigating the firm and working with the authorities or should he live his life of wealth knowing that a part of is corrupt.
What will Mitch do? Will he go on living knowing that his dream job is in truth a nightmare that’s part of a corrupt system? Or will he investigate to bring down the firm and those who run it.
