The Client - John Grisham

I had run out of books to read a week ago, and my friend told me about John Grisham. I'd heard of him as an author but had never read one of his books. My friend then brought the book into work for me, and so I started to read ... The Client is based upon an eleven year old boy, Mark Sway. Whilst having a sneaky cigarette in the woods of his trailer park one day with his younger brother, Ricky, they both witness something that will change their lives forever - a suicide. The man pulls up in his car to where Mark and Ricky are hiding in the bushes, and tries to commit suicide by putting a hose from the exhaust and into the window. Mark sneaks up to the car ...  Read the complete review

Everybody knows smoking is bad for your health, well Mark and Ricky have just found out the hard way exactly how bad it can be. Sneaking a couple of their mother's cigarettes out of her packet, the brothers make their way into the woods so Ricky can have his first taste of a cigarette. Mark isn't really keen on allowing his brother to start smoking, since their father left Mark has felt responsible for his little brother. But Ricky is determined, plus he will tell their mother if Mark doesn't show him how to smoke properly. After a couple of puffs on their cigarettes the boys notice a car coming toward them, they hurriedly put out the cigarettes ...  Read the complete review

This was the first book I read by the author John Grisham, and the first novel I ever read really, quite a while ago. It was a fantastic book, it had everything, suspense, drama, action, one of the best books I have ever read. It had a great impact on me, and led me to read most of his other books, all of which I found to be of a very high standard, he is my favourute author of all time. What is especially good about this book is that at the beginning you have absolutely no idea of what is to come, the opening scene is dramatic, and shows the death of a main character in the plot, but does not give much indication of what is going to happen. There is suspense all the ...  Read the complete review

The Client is about an 11 year old boy called Mark Sway who is from a broken family and has witnessed the death of a US State Senator. He is being pursued by the FBI whom wants him to reveal everything he knows about the killing and in the meantime the killer himself is trying to get to Mark & his mother and cause them harm in order to stop Mark from talking about what he witnessed whilst having a sneaky cigarette in the woods near his house. Mark consults a lawyer, Reggie Love, who sets out to protect Mark from the FBI whilst trying to shield him from the actual killer who wants to ensure that Mark is never able to talk to anybody else about what has ...  Read the complete review

I had seen the film on TV quite a few years ago,and at the time did not realise it was from a John Grisham book. I discovered Grisham quite by accident, on holiday two years ago, and was totally blown away by A Time To Kill and The Chamber, whilst I dont believe that The Client is on a par with either of those two others I did enjoy it. Mark Sway and his younger brother are on their own while their mother struggles to make ends meet at a crummy job. While she is at work, the temptation to misbehave proves too great. The boys sneak off into the woods near their trailer park to smoke cigarettes, and end up witnessing the suicide of a lawyer. The ...  Read the complete review