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Published: October 23, 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Thriller fiction /Library
It has been ages since I read a Grisham novel. I always like them, all that law talk makes it thrilling.
And here is even more stuff I have no idea about, Big coal. Damn dirty business.
Samantha looses her job, but to keep her hanging on her job tells her to work for a non profit for a year. Which takes her to coal country and a legal aid clinic.
Omg, yes it is fiction, but pretty sure he knows his stuff. Like coal truck accidents. That was horrific. How things goes wrong when they blow things up. When dams break. Black lungs. Cancer clusters. And how Big Coal screws everyone over, and has everyone in their pocket.
Top mining? Was that the word? Blowing up mountain tops and going down. Nature effed over.
Samantha comes in to help and gets dragged in to big coal. And honestly how it ends, it was not that uplifting. The fight continues. But as long as they need coal then coal is there
Interesting story
One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses. This is coal country. Meth country. The law is different here.
Sounds like another emotionally gripping one from Grisham. I love his legal thrillers.
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I really like them too, I talked about this one at bookclub and they were all, you read this? Yup
DeleteI would like to read a Grisham, but maybe not this one. Sounds depressingly true-to-life. Ruining nature and people. :(
ReplyDeleteThey tend to be like that
DeleteI've never read JG but I know those who do enjoy his legal thrillers.
ReplyDeleteI am one of those for some reason
DeleteI've never read any of his stuff, but I have seen a couple of the movie adaptations.
ReplyDeleteThey are interesting
DeleteCoal mining is big business and hard work.
ReplyDeleteAnd they get all the money
DeleteOoh, John Grisham, he writes good books. The last one I read by him was a looong time ago though.
ReplyDeleteDunno why for me, maybe the library did not get his new ones
DeleteFiction based on real life a**holes screwing over people and environment. I read a few of his books years ago & they were pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI like him. Sometimes I just wanna read something different
DeleteI should try this author
ReplyDeleteOne of these days
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