The Associate

　　Kyle McAvoy在他父親位於賓州約克小鎮的律師事務所長大。大學時代成績優異，被選作耶魯法律期刊的主編，前途無量。

　　不過他有一個不為人知的秘密，那一段他一直想要忘掉的大學時代發生的事情。這秘密落入錯誤的人的手上，成了把柄， 他只好接受了一份他根本不想要的工作（雖然所有法律系的學生都嚮往這份工作）。

　　離開耶魯大學的三個月後，Kyle進入當今最大的法律公司，他除了要當個律師，他還被迫撒謊、偷竊，還有一些如果僥倖沒被殺死，但一定可以讓他鋃鐺入獄的勾當……

　　這些令人難忘的主角與壞人（像是Baxter Tate，一個被毒品腐蝕專作信託的小子，也大概是一個強暴犯、還有和Kyle用同一間辦公室、美麗、看起來又安靜的數學老師Dale，還有美國境內最有力、激烈競爭的二個被告律師等人物）生靈活現，讓Grisham成為當今最受歡迎的說書人。

　　If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate

　　Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.

　　But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.

　　Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.

　　With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains—from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle’s “cubicle” at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country—and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.

　　“GRISHAM HAS A FIELD DAY…The Associate grabs the reader quickly and becomes impossible to put down.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

　　“Grisham’s confident style hasn’t changed, and THERE’S SUSPENSE APLENTY.”
—People

　　“Grisham makes it easy for us to keep flipping the pages…A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF THE BIG-TIME, BIG-BUCKS LEGAL WORLD.”
—Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

　　“Throughout, Grisham unwinds the spool of his narrative at a MASTERFUL, page-turning pace that pulls readers in and keeps them wanting more…The Associate is an absorbing thriller that's A FITTING FOLLOW-UP TO THE FIRM.”
—The Boston Globe

　　“COMPULSIVELY READABLE…You're peering into a secret world of power and money. What more could you or any red-blooded American ask for?”
—Time magazine

　　“A PAGE-TURNER…Kyle McAvoy recalls Mitch McDeere from Grisham's breakout novel The Firm. He's young, idealistic, handsome, a little too cocky for his own good, but a brilliant lawyer who gets pulled in over his head and given an education in how the world really works.”
—The Los Angeles Times