Grisham’s 25th legal thriller. This is a typical romping law-topic story from Grisham, rather predictable, but full of fun characters, sardonic humour, and entertaining enough to keep us occupied on a road trip with the audio version. If I’d read the print version, I think I would have been disappointed with the book. It rambled quite a bit and didn’t seem to be up to Grisham’s usual standard, but for easy listening it was good!
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, but now, as third-year students, these close friends realise they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specialising in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam and take matters into their own hands. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process!
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