The Street Lawyer John Grisham

This is another classic Grisham.

Micheal Brock works for a Big Law firm Drake & Sweeney. Working most of his waking hours he is due for partnership if he were to continue at the same pace, billing the top notch clients in his speciality - antitrust law.

Of course this grueling lifestyle has taken toll of his marital life. His wife Claire is now a top surgeon and both are now drifting apart.

But ofcourse all this takes a back seat in his life until one day a homeless person "Mister" gets into the same lift as him, climbs the same floor as him and actually takes as him as a hostage Mike along with 7 other colleagues.

Unfortunately Mister gets killed by the SWAT agent and all the hostages are "saved" . What seems to be an end of this drama seems to be the begining of a new life for Mike.

This incident opens his eyes to the horrid and wretched world of homeless people in America. He is moved to such an extent that he decides to leave his plush life and join the ranks of lawyers like Mordecai who have spent their entire careers looking after the plights of the homeless. The other turning point that makes him take this decision is the dark murky association of his law firm and the plight of some of the homeless, one of whom was the captor. At the time of leaving he "borrows" an extremely important file on this particular case. But an unexpected accident prevents him from returning the file and now he is faced with the charge of grand larceny.

So there he is now, Separated from his wife, working as a Street Lawyer with hardly any money to buy a decent apartment, having an annual paypacket which equals what he once earned per hour and a impending threat of losing his License.

How does his skim through this? Is he able to be a proper "Street" Lawyer? Or does he go back to his old firm ? Read the book to find out.

The book was good, it managed to hold my attention till the end although i did feel that the last chapter or two were a bit hurried in pace as compared to the remaining book.

But definitely a Must Read ..