Book review

The Street Lawyer
John Grisham
The top American firm Drake & Sweeney, where the top lawyers worked and always won their cases. The lawyers made money at the client’s cost. They lived luxuries lives. One day, a homeless named DeVon Hardy walks in and takes nine lawyers hostage, asks questions like how much they earned and how much each lawyer would spend for a meal and etc. after a long ordeal is finally killed by the SWAT Team.
One of the layers named Michael Brock who was a hostage among the nine, is happy that the hostage crisis is over but his family life is deteriorating with his wife Claire, which soon diminishes. But is caught on to the questions of the homeless man. So Michael starts to search Deeper into the hostage crisis. Then realizes that the firm was involved in a settlement where the squatters (Homeless) were sent out of a Godown where they used to pay rent and the place was given to make a post office without any prior notice. The quick settelment ended up by sending the people to the streets.
At the same time while exploring the case . Michael encounters many homeless people through a lawyer named Mordecai who also runs a legal clinic, rescuing and helping with justice. Michael gets into it, His entire life changes. one day while helping Mordecai in one of the shelters he sees a girl age 22 having 4 chidren at the shelter and helps these kids with food and changing nappies. One thing that he had never thought in his entire life. on the next day there is a snow storm, on the headlines is the death of the mother and children in a old car where they used to stay and keep themselves warm.
Michael provides for a great funeral. Which starts to make headlines.
As the days go he is more committed in rescuing the homeless, quits the job and starts to work with Mordecai, then his wife files for a divorce.
On the last day of work at Drake and Sweeney, Michael takes the file regarding the evection of the homeless. But he had never intend to steal but just to have a look at it. The police chase him and at the same time, the firm files a case of larceny. The homeless legal clinic files a case against Drake and Sweeny and other involved in it. The case is closed with a mighty settlement and a negotiated pardon for Larceny for Michael.
The book ends with Meghan a worker at the Samaritan Home for women on his encounters of the homeless. And the Firm Drake and Sweeney coming forward in helping the homeless with their needs.
It’s a thrilling story with suspense so you wouldn’t want to put your book down
“…Priviledge people don’t march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. I had never taken to the streets before; why bother? And for the first block or two I felt odd, walking in a mass of people, holding a stick with a placard bearing the face of a twenty -two-year-old black mother who bore four illegitimate children…”

A Must read book for all


Sangster Sukumar
JOY Works