The Firm"Mitchell Y. McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, Mitch surprises everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. Mitch and his wife Abby move to Tennessee and quickly settle into their new life. Soon, though, Mitch senses trouble: two of the partners die in a suspicious diving accident off Grand Cayman; the firm's management is overly proud of the fact that no one has ever resigned; and security measures at the firm are more than a little stringent. Then, while eating alone at a nearby diner, he is approached by a man named Tarrance who claims to be with the FBI. Tarrance tells Mitch that the firm's "security" people have bugged his phone, his house, and probably his car; and that the FBI will contact him again soon. In subsequent meetings with Tarrance, Mitch is told that the FBI has been studying Bendini, Lambert & Locke for years, and that while they have a few legitimate clients, they are most assuredly not a law firm. When Mitch learns what they really are, he is at first shocked, then frightened; when he learns what they really do, and how they do it, he is terrified. And when the FBI needs an informant inside the firm, he realizes he's trapped: the FBI will bust him if he doesn't cooperate, and the firm will kill him if he does. There's no way out. Or is there?" -- From the cover. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 38 |
Section 4 | 45 |
Section 5 | 56 |
Section 6 | 70 |
Section 7 | 83 |
Section 8 | 99 |
Section 22 | 270 |
Section 23 | 287 |
Section 24 | 297 |
Section 25 | 309 |
Section 26 | 327 |
Section 27 | 334 |
Section 28 | 353 |
Section 29 | 363 |
Section 9 | 106 |
Section 10 | 113 |
Section 11 | 119 |
Section 12 | 133 |
Section 13 | 147 |
Section 14 | 175 |
Section 15 | 182 |
Section 16 | 193 |
Section 17 | 201 |
Section 18 | 211 |
Section 19 | 223 |
Section 20 | 243 |
Section 21 | 261 |
Section 30 | 373 |
Section 31 | 381 |
Section 32 | 394 |
Section 33 | 404 |
Section 34 | 414 |
Section 35 | 430 |
Section 36 | 440 |
Section 37 | 453 |
Section 38 | 464 |
Section 39 | 474 |
Section 40 | 488 |
Section 41 | 496 |
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