Number one New York Times best-selling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.
But maybe there’s a way out. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no…
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BORING, DISAPPOINTING, DISGUSTING In my opinion the best book JG every wrote was “A Time to Kill.” Jake Brigance’s summation cannot be surpassed by anyone. I follow this with “The Testament” & for a great heartwarming story “Skipping Christmas.”Â
Signs of the times I am a huge John Grisham fan. However his past few novels have been hit or miss. This one is a miss for me. The civics lesson, got it. The Wells Fargo banking scam, got it. Made for profit schools, got it. Maybe it’s a sign of our current times that there is such apathy about right and wrong. John, I love your David vs Goliath storylines, stick to them. Your characters are likable with a moral compass. This book is about unlikable characters trying to screw more unlikable characters who…
Timely Read for Many Reasons This was a rollercoaster of a read for me. It hit close to home as I am a somewhat recent law grad, and all of the perils of the law job market and massive student loan debt is nothing new to me. It was reassuring to witness John Grisham tackle these issues and bring them to the forefront of his readers’ minds.Â