Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they8217;ll use to ruin him8211;unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world8217;s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he8217;ll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there8217;s a catch. Kyle won8217;t be working for the firm but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm8211;in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery may be able to escape alive.From the Paperback edition.
Nobody's perfect. Despite his ambitions and successes up-and-coming attorney Kyle McAvoy has this one little skeleton in his closet, and now someone's found out. Blackmailed into working an inside job at a high-power firm in New York, Kyle's in a compromising and dangerous position with grave consequences. John Grisham delivers another of his bestselling legal thrillers with THE ASSOCIATE.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery + Crime, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Legal + Courtroom + Crime, Work + the Workplace, Westerns, Legal, Action + Thrillers
- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Pages: 373
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: May 24, 2011
- Date Published: May 24, 2011
- Author: John Grisham