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008 971203s1998 nyu 000 1 eng
020 _a0385490992 (hc.)
020 _a038549100X (lg. print)
020 _a0385491018 (limited ed.)
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040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_bspa
041 _aEng.
043 _an-us-dc
050 1 4 _aPS 3557
_bG869s 1998
082 0 0 _a813
100 1 _aGrisham, John Ray,
_d1955-
245 1 4 _aThe street lawyer /
_cJohn Grisham.
260 _aNew York :
_bDoubleday,
_c1998.
300 _a348 p. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aA corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer.
650 0 _aNovela estadounidense
_9203
651 0 _aWashington (D.C.)
_xFiction.
655 7 _aLegal stories.
_2gsafd
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/97047484.html
856 4 1 _3Sample text
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random043/97047484.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/97047484.html
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