Customer Reviews
Tom Sawyer Takes on the Mafia, the FBI, and the Courts - By: Donald Mitchell, 22 Jul 2008 
If you only read one legal thriller by John Grisham, I strongly urge you to choose The Client. It's a remarkable book that will reward your patience, pique your curiosity, & keep you guessing until almost the very end.
The client has to be the most unusual legal thriller every written. The book's indomitable hero, Mark Sway, is an 11-year-old with a lot of guts & a desire to do the right thing. John Grisham takes that premise & pushes it to the limit by teaming Mark with the only lawyer that Grisham ever wrote positively about, Reggie Love. In the process, Grisham entertains with the petty foibles & vanities of the legal "powers that be" in a way that will make you wish that nice people worked at the law.
Enchanting books have heroes & heroines who intrigue & inspire us. Mark Sway & Reggie Love are well designed for those purposes. Mark is that wonderful combination of scamp, optimist, & idealist that Mark Twain first imagined in the character of Tom Sawyer. Reggie Love is a composite of the loving concern of everyone's favorite aunt combined with the toughness & smarts of Perry Mason.
The Mafia characters are bozos. The FBI agents are cretins. The prosecutors are sleaze ballls. The other characters fade into the woodwork except for Reggie's favorite judge.
Have a balll!
Excellent - even by Grisham's standards. - By: B. J. Madeley, 01 Feb 2008 The Client is a legal thriller written by bestselling author John Grisham, it also now a succesful film. Set in the deep south on a trailer park in Tennessee, it seems an unlikely place to find the only witness to the suicide of a top Mafia lawyer. 11 year old Mark Sway is the unfortunate witness, who is informed of the whereabouts of a the boby of a Mafia murdered U.S. senator.
This is definitely one of the best books written by John Grisham (and that's saying something). It's an enormously easy to read & gripping novel, the pages will just fly by! Mark Sway, despite being a bit of a little brat is a very likeable & engaging character who is clearly terrified of the position he finds himself in. This book also includes some very violent & bloodthirsty villains who want Mark dead!
If your a fan of Grisham you will love this, if your not then you will be once you've read The Client!
The master strikes again - By: KEN SCOTT author, 19 Dec 2007 
I remember the movie on Sky some weeks back, & as with alll well written books, it knocks spots off the big screen version. Grisham's portrayal of the eleven year old kid is masterful as he jumps into the kids head in every chapter. Absolutely gripping & highly believable.
starts well but fades - By: Mr. L. Wright, 07 Feb 2007 
easy to read but has a few flaws.
would recommend this for any one who is looking for & easy read.but it never gets going.the excitment is absent the twists are dull & predictable.you constanky wish the temp would pick up but alas it does not.the ending is awful.swift & pointless.
Someone is always watching you - By: G. M. Buchanan, 16 Aug 2006 Firstly I must admit to being a John Grisham fan,I have read nearly alll of his work. This ranks amongst the best. Two lads are witness to an attempted suicide. One lad attempts to stop the suicde & ends up being caught & dragged into the car with the man. As the fumes fill the car the man tells the boy he was a lawyer for a mafia hit man & proceeds to tell the boy things the FBI would like to know. The boy gets out the car & the man kills himself. It is now a fight between the hit man & the FBI as to who gets control of the boy. A great story full of tension,twists & turns & it will keep you turning pages long into the night. I would have gave it five stars but no one is perfect - although this comes close.
