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...John Grisham...
...gloriously contrary society despises lawyers with openhearted loathing (to exactly the degree, in fact, that it loves lawsuits). Anyone who doubts this should consider John Grisham's 1991 thriller, The Firm. At a casual look, The Firm was a competent, but fairly routine, on-the-run-pursued-by-nasties page turner. But it stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for an entire year, something accomplished by nothing but Dr. Seuss books and the kind of self-help manual that advises you to Hate Your Way to a Firmer, More Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that...
...great surprise that The Pelican Brief, Grisham's new novel, is as close to its predecessor as you can get without running The Firm through the office copier. As before, a handsome young couple are pursued by thugs. In the background are members of a corrupt law firm who sleazily shuffle paper, rack up grossly inflated billable hours and conspire in the bumping off of a couple of liberal Supreme Court Justices...
Oddly, Gray Grantham, the male half of Grisham's protagonist couple, is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and, relatively speaking, one of the good guys. This is a blow; journalists like to consider themselves outcasts from decent society, and novelist Grisham is telling them that their reading on the nation's revulsion meter is insignificant. Grantham's fellow fugitive and lady love is Darby Shaw, a beautiful law student who, in the finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam...
...Looney was on the Oklahoma first-string at season's start; then he slugged an assistant coach in practice and was summarily booted off the team. But Looney is a fine punter, a devastating runner, and obviously aggressive enough for the pros. The scouts' second choice: Jim Grisham, 20 (6 ft. 2 in., 211 lbs.), the current Oklahoma fullback...