The Associate

Tags

fiction,suspence

Summary

As an idealistic law student and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, Kyle McAvoy has the promise of a highly successful career, although after graduation, he intends to devote three years to public

Description

Grisham's plot is based in part on the case of a Las Vegas man who, as part of his Alcoholics Anonymous program, wrote a letter of apology to a woman he had raped at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia in 1984. Her claim had been ignored by the police and school officials at the time, but nineteen years later his admission of guilt resulted in his being charged with rape and eventually serving six months in prison after plea bargaining.