M. Gautham Machaiah“You get nothing for nothing,” Mitch Mc Deere’s brother Ray serving a prison sentence at Tennessee jail would often say. Mitch should have realised this when a small time law firm in Memphis, Bendini, Lambert and Locke, paid him a handsome package, leased out a BMW, arranged a house mortgage and paid off his loans. But he did not. Until it was too late.
The Firm, by John Grisham is the story of a young and much sought after law graduate who lands up a plum assignment in a little known law firm, whose members carry their ethics, morals and family values on their sleeve. Bendini, Lambert and Locke makes an astounding offer which this student with only one pair of worn out suit and a jalopy for a car, cannot resist.
Soon Mitch and his wife, Abbey are in Memphis enjoying all the trappings of a life they had not imagined in their wildest dreams. The Mc Deeres had arrived.
But soon the good tidings come to an end. Mitch is accosted by an FBI agent and learns that his dream firm is under the scanner of the federal agencies. Then on, life turns out to be roller coaster ride for this young lawyer who is caught between the FBI and his firm. This is where the gripping story begins.
The Firm is yet another testimony to Grisham’s writing and imaginative skills. Nobody can perhaps breathe life into a mundane subject like law, as Grisham does. Like all other works of the author, The Firm is absorbing, riveting and spellbinding.
And it teaches you that you get nothing for nothing.
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