Piety Street - John Scofield

Advantages: Gritty and honest thriller
Disadvantages: Strong on plot, less character development

...1998, Arrow, pbk Every now and again a book or film comes along which changes your perception of how the world could be. As I had only ever come across multi-million selling author John Grisham as the name behind the film of his hit The Firm (and an uninspiring performance from Tom Cruise) I was not expecting great guns from this book. Michael Brock is about to undergo a life changing experience. A top attorney in firm in Washington DC, he turns up for work one day and innocently crosses the path of Mister, and homeless man with a stolen gun. While Michael survives the encounter, Mister does not and Michael is prompted to investigate the grudge he held against his employer, Drake and Sweeney. While the original premise may seem quite simple - even in Washington, a landlord must give a tenant 30 days notice of eviction by... Read review

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Advantages: The best start to a Grisham book I have read
Disadvantages: A few of the twists can seem to be a little far fetched

...The next book on my trip through my John Grisham shelf of my Bookcase is The Street Lawyer. I know a lot of people will be thinking I only have Grisham books on my shelf and it certainly seems that way to me. His books make up just under half of my collection of fiction works and although one of his recent works didn’t fill me with the same desire to read, the older ones such as this certainly did. Grisham, a former lawyer has made a very good living out of writing Novels, since his debut effort A Time To Kill. Despite his move away from practising law he writes his books on the subject he is familiar with keeping a law theme within almost all of his works to date. His knowledge of the criminal system obviously helps a lot in explaining exactly what he means in an easy way so that someone like me, with only basic knowledge... Read review

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Advantages: Fast reading
Disadvantages: Same subject - law

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