John Grisham, „König des Thrillers“ (FOCUS), bietet hier mit seinen packenden Einblicken ins juristische Milieu doppelte Spannung: Ein junger Anwalt sieht sich in die Machenschaften seiner Kanzlei verstrickt, eine Studentin wird wegen eines Dossiers gejagt.
This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...