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The Street Lawyer

A Novel

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The Street Lawyer

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Compelling . . . another timely tale from John Grisham. [The Street Lawyer] shows not only that Grisham has his finger on the public pulse but that he’s also out to prick its conscience.”—Chicago Tribune

Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was no more than three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience.

Then a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived, but his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging and learned that his attacker was a mentally ill veteran who’d been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney.

The fast track derailed, the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer. And a thief.
Suspense Thriller & Suspense Homelessness

Critic reviews

“Grisham at his plot-driven best.”The Denver Post

“An entertaining read with an important theme . . . The story unfolds in breakneck fashion with those wonderful pages-long passages of taut Grisham dialogue.”Chicago Sun-Times

“The plot surges forward, pulling us along as we turn those pages a mile a minute.”San Francisco Chronicle

“Powerful.”Richmond Times-Dispatch

The Street Lawyer hits the ground on a dead run.”San Diego Union-Tribune

“Intricately plotted . . . smoothly told . . . [a] moving exploration of the world of the homeless.”Publishers Weekly

“Riveting.”Detroit News
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