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Ever since Abner Doubleday tossed out the first pitch in Cooperation around 1860, the key to success at baseball has been pitching and defense, pitching and defense, pitching and defense...
JOHN GRISHAM'S EARLIER THRILLERS The Firm and The Pelican Brief were a bit overwhooped and underthrilling. But his newest novel THE CLIENT (Doubleday; $23.50) works a lot better, possibly because the author's wide-eyed narrative style fits the title figure. Mark Sway is the kind of 11-year-old boy who picks trouble out of the air the way a seagull fields thrown french fries. He becomes the client of a bodacious middle-aged woman defense attorney by overhearing a gabby, Mob-connected New Orleans lawyer as this fellow is rambling his way toward suicide. Soon the clownish...
...week after her husband's Inauguration, Hillary Rodham Clinton is nibbling a salad in the Manhattan apartment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. On the face of it, the two First Ladies could not seem more different. The times dictated that Mrs. Onassis, now a respected editor at Doubleday, would confine her interests to interior decorating and haute couture. While Mrs. Onassis spent all of her time in the East Wing with her social secretary, Letitia Baldrige, Mrs. Clinton has moved into the West Wing of the White House with all the men, and for the next 100 days will...
PUBLISHER: DOUBLEDAY; 370 PAGES...
ACCORDING TO JASON BERRY'S ASTONISHING, DISheartening new account, Lead Us Not into Temptation (Doubleday), 400 U.S. and Canadian Catholic clerics have been accused of child molestation, costing the church roughly $400 million in damage payments and other expenses. Now one of the biggest cases is over. The Fall River, Massachusetts, diocese reached an out-of-court settlement with 68 persons who said they were abused in the 1960s by Father James Porter and accused the diocese of ignoring his misdeeds. The accusers, who agreed not to disclose the financial terms, were sober in victory. Cash "is not a medicine...