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John Grisham: About the Grisham spent three years on his first book 'A Time to Kill' (review) and finished it in 1987. This was the starting point of his career. It was soon joined by his second book 'The Firm' which when he sold the film rights brought him into the limelight and 'The Firm' became the biggest selling book of 1991.

The success of 'The Pelican Brief' confirmed Grisham's status as the master author on legal thirillers. Some of his other books include 'The Client', 'The Chamber', 'The Runaway Jury', 'Skipping Christmas', 'The Summons' and 'The King of Torts'.




The Broker Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." Read More.

The Street Lawyer John Grisham is known for writing action filled legal novels. The Street Lawyer is his ninth, and most recent novel, which fits that category quite well. It's suspenseful plot and fast pace mix well with the emotional and legal themes presented. Grisham ties these diverse aspects of the main character, Michael Brock's life together in an interesting and understandable way. Instead of beginning with background information about the main characters, and the usual slow moving start, Grisham begins with a hostage situation which takes place and is resolved within the first twenty pages. Read More.

John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham's story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving they wave their daughter Blair off to Peru to work for the Peace Corps, and they suddenly realize that "for the first time in her young and sheltered life Blair would spend Christmas away from home." Read More. Skipping Christmas

Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. Read More. Pelican Brief

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