The Associate - John Grisham

John Grisham and I have a love hate relationship. Books like The Pelican Brief, The Firm, and The Client introduced me to a genre that I truly enjoy although I always felt like Grisham had a hard time writing a decent ending. In more recent years I've continued to read his books hoping to feel some of the excitement I felt with his earlier writing. For the most part though the story lines have just gotten more convoluted and it seems like his character is always the same guy. A moral gray guy who in the end turns to the light. Anyway The Associate is pretty much the same old, same old. You have a soon to be law student who is graduating soon. He plans to take a job doing immigration law but instead he is blackmailed into working for a large firm and attempting to steal secrets on how to build the newest bomb dropping airplane. The whole idea is rediculous, the main character gets annoying, and the wrap up as usual leaves you thinking...what? That was it?

Out of Five Stars I give this book three (***). I wonder if Grisham will ever be able to excite again.