The Firm
Robin Waterfield, 1991
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A young lawyer joins the firm of his dreams and finds the salary comes with a leash. Billable hours, Caribbean errands, and a way out that may not exist.
Feels like unease and serenity. About ambition and freedom.
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Someone has been studying you closely, and it isn't affection.
You’ve been hurt by every person you ever cared for, except Abby. You raised yourself, and in doing so became self-reliant and independent. You don’t need the firm. You can leave it. You’re hardened and calloused beyond your years. And you’re smart enough to pull it off, Mitch. You won’t get caught. That’s why we picked you. Robin Waterfield.Grisham spent nine years as a trial lawyer in Southaven, Mississippi, and served in the state legislature, writing fiction in the hours before work.
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- Feels like unease and serenity. About ambition and freedom.
- What should I read after The Firm?
- If you liked The Firm, try Kiss the Girls (James Patterson), The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella) and Maybe Someday (Colleen Hoover).
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A woman who has learned to live with the sea.
But if you’re a lawyer at Carter Spink, you don’t sit around. Not when every six minutes of your time is worth money. If I let six minutes of time tick away, I’ve lost the firm £50. Twelve minutes, £100. Eighteen minutes, £150. And the truth is, you get used to measuring your life in little chunks. And you get used to working. All the time.
The Undomestic Goddess · Sophie Kinsella
How a whole life gets settled by a beer and a nine o'clock bedtime.
Am I ready to fall into this comfortable life with him? One where I teach all day and he does people’s taxes, and then we come home and I cook dinner and I “grab him beers” while he props his feet up and calls me babe, and then we go to our bed and make love at approximately nine P.M. so we won’t be tired the next day, in order to wake up and get dressed and go to work and do it all over again?
Maybe Someday · Colleen Hoover
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