The Firm

The Firm

JOHN GRISHAM

Level 5

Retold by Robin Waterfield

Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, England
and Associated Companies throughout the world. ISBN-13: 978-0-582-41827-1 ISBN-10: 0-582-41827-5
The Film ©John Grisham 1991
First published in United Kingdom by Century 1991
This adaptation firstpublished by Penguin Books 1995
Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd. 1998
New edition first published 1999

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Contents

Introduction | | pageiv |
Chapter 1 | Mitchell McDeere | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Bendini,Lambert and Locke | 2 |
Chapter 3 | The Fifth Floor | 4 |
Chapter 4 | Sad News | 7 |
Chapter 5 | Long Hours | 9 |
Chapter 6 | A Tiny Microphone | 11 |
Chapter 7 | Tarrance | 13 |
Chapter 8 | Four People, Three of them Dead | 20 |
Chapter 9 | Grand Cayman | 21 |
Chapter 10 | Dangerous Waters | 24 |
Chapter 11 | A Professional Job | 28 |
Chapter 12 | Denton Voyles | 30 |
Chapter 13 |Shopping for Shoes | 34 |
Chapter 14 | Two Black Briefcases | 38 |
Chapter 15 | Secret Talks | 40 |
Chapter 16 | No Kiss | 43 |
Chapter 17 | Tarry Ross | 49 |
Chapter 18 | Fitting the Pieces Together | 51 |
Chapter 19 | Avery's Illness | 55 |
Chapter 20 | Major Trouble | 56 |
Chapter 21 | On the Run | 61 |
Chapter 22 | The Hunt Gets Closer | 64 |
Chapter 23 | Panama City Beach| 65 |
Chapter 24 | On the Floor Among the Boxes | 68 |
Chapter 25 | The Pier | 70 |
Activities | | 74 |

Introduction

'Mitch, what I'm about to tell you will certainly shock you. You won't want to believe it. But it's all true, and with your help we can save you.'

Mitchell McDeere wants to succeed. Young, handsome and intelligent, he wants it all: money, power, a bighouse and a fast car. He's climbing — and he wants to climb fast.
So when he is offered a job at the super-rich law firm of Bendini,
Lambert and Locke he cannot believe his luck. With the kind of money they offer him, all his dreams can come true.
But dreams come at a price. And the firm's price is high — very high. As high as Mitch's life — unless he fights, and fights hard.

John Grishamis one of the world's best-selling authors. The Firm was his second novel and was a number one US best-seller for over a year. It was made into an exciting film in 1993 with Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and Holly Hunter.
Grisham was born in 1955 in Arkansas, in the US A, the son of a building worker. ('We didn't have a lot of money,' he has said. 'But we didn't know it.') He studied law and ran hisown law firm for nine years, and was also a local politician in Mississippi. In 1984 he decided to write a novel and spent three years arriving at his office at
5 a.m. in order to write it. This was A Time to Kill. It did not sell well, but success soon followed. With the money he made from The Firm, Grisham was able to give up his law practice and concentrate on writing.
He lives on...