The Firm
Mitch McDeere finishes near the top of his class at Harvard Law and takes a lucrative offer from a small tax firm in Memphis. The salary is high, the cars are provided, and everyone smiles a little too much. When associates start dying in strange accidents, Mitch begins to realize the firm's real client is the Chicago mob, and he becomes a target of both organized crime and the FBI. Grisham's second novel became a runaway bestseller and defined the modern legal thriller for a generation. It was later adapted into the 1993 film starring Tom Cruise. The pacing is relentless and the plotting is airtight.
What you might want to know about The Firm
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A Harvard Law grad takes a dream job at a Memphis firm and discovers who really runs it.
Robbins, a former lawyer, has mentioned The Firm on her podcast as one of the books that made her love legal storytelling and one she still recommends as pure escapist reading.
No. The Firm is a standalone novel and works as a first Grisham read.
The Firm was written by John Grisham, published in 1991 by Dell.
The Firm is 528 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Firm takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
The Firm is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
