The Associate

A Novel

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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.

Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

©2009 Belfry Holdings, Inc (P)2009 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY…The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Grisham’s confident style hasn’t changed, and THERE’S SUSPENSE APLENTY.” —People

“Grisham makes it easy for us to keep flipping the pages…A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF THE BIG-TIME, BIG-BUCKS LEGAL WORLD.” —Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

Good read

Grissom writes the best mystery/law books. Very few mistakes in this one and I enjoyed the readers voice. Really went with the character.

Awesome!

John Grisham does it again! This is a great book! If you are a lawyer you'll most definitely relate to it. If you're not, you won't believe what some of them go through if they want to make it to the big leagues. Much of this book seems like fiction, but isn't.Thoroughly entertaining.

Not the best value

slow and boring although it is slightly entriquing but not enough to stop from returning it

Interesting premise--very enjoyable

Despite some negative reviews--thought this was a solid Grisham book. Very suspenseful for most of the book and the ending, while not fantastic, is consistent with what we know of the Kyle, the main character. And yes, the characters Grisham paints are mostly two-dimensional. But aren't most people? I don't think law professionals are imbued with any more character than the average Joe, or Josette.

The narrator was excellent--nailing many slight accents with ease. He researched his characters thoroughly.

Great listen.

slow

the story was very slow and not the best. the least favorite one of his so far.

Ending is terrible

How can you leave it with no conclusion? Quite lazy, which is not what I normally expect with JG.

loved it!

this is another good one. put it on ur list. I didn't want.to stop listening.

Up and a big let down

Pretty good build up to a bummer of a climax My words were "are you kidding me?" Felt cheated

Good until it ended

I usually enjoy John Grisham books quite a bit. I had read the reviews on this site but decided to buy the book anyway.
It really kept my interest....until it ended. I knew from the reviews there wasn't going to be much of an ending but I was still disappointed.

Did I forget to download Part III?

Where is the ending of this story? In what was a very entertaining book as it was coming closer to the end and I'm seeing there is less than an hour left I'm wondering how they are going to be able to fit in the twist, the surprise, the unexpected...next thing you know its over.

Wow...very disappointed is all I can say.