The Firm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

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The Firm is the second legal thriller written by attorney John Grisham. It followed his 1988 debut novel A Time to Kill. The Firm was the top-selling novel of 1991 on the New York Times bestseller list, bringing its author international fame. It focuses on new Harvard Law School graduate Mitch McDeere, who accepts a financially lucrative position with a Memphis law firm that he discovers is embroiled in unethical and illegal activities.

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Grisham is the author of over four dozen consecutive number one bestsellers, including The Pelican Brief and The Client. Grisham published a sequel to the novel, The Exchange: After the Firm, in 2023.He is also an advocate for people who are wrongly incarcerated and is a board member of the Innocence Project. His nonfiction work The Innocent Man focuses on this issue.

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In 1993, The Firm was adapted as a feature film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise. In 2012, it was made into a television series that portrayed the McDeeres 10 years after the events in the book; the series ran only one season.