The Associate. John Grisham. ISBN:9780099502234

Kyle McAvoy grew up in the small town of York, Pennsylvania, where his father had his law office. He excels academically, is elected editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and has a bright future ahead of him. But Kyle is keeping a dark secret. An episode that happened during his college years that he tries to forget. But the “wrong” people find out about the secret, so Kyle has to get a job that he clearly doesn’t like, but which many law graduates dream of. Three months after graduating from Yale University, Kyle becomes a partner in the world's largest law firm, where, in addition to practicing in his specialty, he will have to lie, steal and take part in schemes that could threaten him not only with imprisonment, but also with death. A number of memorable characters and antagonists (such as Baxter Tate, a kid who is often high and accused of sexual assault, Dale, a good-looking but too quiet former math teacher who shares a workplace with Kyle at a law firm, and two of the most powerful world and competing military contractors), as well as stunning plot twists, have made John Grisham the most famous storyteller in the world. “The Lawyer” is a true classic performed by the author.