The Associate

The AssociateIf you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor in chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait
until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate

Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.

But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want--even though it's a job most law students can only dream about.

Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.

With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains--from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle's "cubicle" at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country--and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 01/27/2009
ISBN: 9780385517836
Pages: 373
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.50w x 1.31d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 02/20/2009 pg. 73
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2008 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 01/09/2009 pg. 2
Entertainment Weekly 01/30/2009 pg. 100
People Weekly 02/02/2009 pg. 48
Entertainment Weekly 02/27/2009 pg. 61
Vanity Fair 05/01/2009 pg. 66
BookPage 01/01/2009

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128682 / Associate
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17