Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12677 in Books
• Published on: 1994-06-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Synopsis
An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together, they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.

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A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden.

The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family.

The killer wants him silenced forever.

Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.

`Hard to put down'Daily Telegraph

`Take it from me, this man Grisham spins a damned good yarn and is going to be around for a long, long time' Time Out

`It's gripping enough to be best read in daylight' Sunday Express

Customer Reviews

Tom Sawyer Takes on the Mafia, the FBI, and the Courts
If you only read one legal thriller by John Grisham, I strongly urge you to choose The Client. It's a remarkable book that will reward your patience, pique your curiosity, and keep you guessing until almost the very end.

The client has to be the most unusual legal thriller every written. The book's indomitable hero, Mark Sway, is an 11-year-old with a lot of guts and a desire to do the right thing. John Grisham takes that premise and pushes it to the limit by teaming Mark with the only lawyer that Grisham ever wrote positively about, Reggie Love. In the process, Grisham entertains with the petty foibles and vanities of the legal "powers that be" in a way that will make you wish that nice people worked at the law.

Enchanting books have heroes and heroines who intrigue and inspire us. Mark Sway and Reggie Love are well designed for those purposes. Mark is that wonderful combination of scamp, optimist, and idealist that Mark Twain first imagined in the character of Tom Sawyer. Reggie Love is a composite of the loving concern of everyone's favorite aunt combined with the toughness and smarts of Perry Mason.

The Mafia characters are bozos. The FBI agents are cretins. The prosecutors are sleaze balls. The other characters fade into the woodwork except for Reggie's favorite judge.

Have a ball!

Excellent - even by Grisham's standards.
The Client is a legal thriller written by bestselling author John Grisham, it also now a succesful film. Set in the deep south on a trailer park in Tennessee, it seems an unlikely place to find the only witness to the suicide of a top Mafia lawyer. 11 year old Mark Sway is the unfortunate witness, who is informed of the whereabouts of a the boby of a Mafia murdered U.S. senator.

This is definitely one of the best books written by John Grisham (and that's saying something). It's an enormously easy to read and gripping novel, the pages will just fly by! Mark Sway, despite being a bit of a little brat is a very likeable and engaging character who is clearly terrified of the position he finds himself in. This book also includes some very violent and bloodthirsty villains who want Mark dead!

If your a fan of Grisham you will love this, if your not then you will be once you've read The Client!

The master strikes again


I remember the movie on Sky some weeks back, and as with all well written books, it knocks spots off the big screen version. Grisham's portrayal of the eleven year old kid is masterful as he jumps into the kids head in every chapter. Absolutely gripping and highly believable.