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Eleven-year-old Mark Sway's accidental involvement in the suicide of a New Orleans Mafia lawyer leads him to "all kinds of trouble" in the first chapter of John Grisham's "The Client." In producer Joel Schumacher's adaptation of the novel (also "The Client"), however, it is the screenplay's disinvolvement from the opening-scene suicide and its "bloody and explosive secret" that causes the film "all kinds of trouble...
Jerome Clifford's creative death scene in the opening chapter seems tantamount to Grisham confessing that nothing more can be written about the tainted attorneys of "The Firm" and the crime network they represented; indeed, the author labors nearly 564 pages convincing us he is not simply writing another legal thriller. Instead of the brilliant young lawyer, Mitch McDeer (played by Tom Cruise in "The Firm"), the novel's hero is a cigarette-smoking 11-year-old; in place of the Firm's boardroom, the setting is working-class Memphis. Nevertheless, the similarities remain, and Grisham ultimately leaves the reader...
...Dooling is only warming up. It seems that Killigan's son Michael, Boone's idealistic friend, has gone missing while on Peace Corps duty in Sierra Leone. The scene shifts to the African outback, and the reader worries for a chapter or two that Dooling intends to serve up the traditional wise and ! mysterious natives of white-man-in-Africa fiction who look on gravely as the palefaces disintegrate...
...until he realized that his recovery depended on himself and not the white coats he had so believed in all his life did her father improve. He finished reading Janice's book just before he died in May, at 79. "I get calls from doctors who have read that chapter who comment what a brave and determined man my father must have been," she says...
...weapon in the hands of avarice and greed." When Errand Wolf gets the book, he goes into the ghetto of the town to find "The Sloth," the only creature mean enough to kill Wilson. The story then moves to the outskirts of town where a shepherd tells the final chapter of the story. After killing Wilson, the knowledge offered by the book, as Icculus had warned, is corrupted, so the rebel leader Errand Wolf simply becomes the next king Wilson...