"This newest legal thriller . . . is as solidly plotted and masterfully suspenseful as Grisham's earlier The Firm and The Pelican Brief. Grlslmm uses his knowl edge of" the law to advantage, making his stories a notch more complex than most crime adventures....The Client should please bothloyal fans andthose new to the author's work."

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America.

         "HEART-POUNDING!" --The Orlando Sentinel

Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years.

"GRISHAM IS AN ABSOLUTE MASTER!"

          --The Washington Post

Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client--even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom...or cost them both their lives.

          "ENGROSSING!--San Francisco Chronicle

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