PAPERBACK BOOK THE ASSOCIATE
By PHILLIP MARGOLIN
ISBN # 0061030643 2002
HARPER COLLINS BOOKS
BACK COVER:
A POSTER BOY FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM, FORMER BLUE COLLAR BOY TURNED HIGH-POWERED LAWYER DANIEL AMES IS ON EASY STREET AS AN ASSOCIATE AT REED, BRIGGS, PORTLAND'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS LAW FIRM.
UNTIL ONE MAN.....AND ONE CASE.... CHANGES EVERYTHING.
WHEN A CHARISMATIC LAWYER SUES THE FIRM'S BIGGEST CLIENT, A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY, FOR MANUFACTURING A DRUG THAT CAUSES UNSPEAKABLE BIRTH DEFECTS, DANIEL BELIEVES THE CASE HAS NO MERIT. BUT WHEN INFORMATION IMPLICATING COMPANY MALFEASANCE SURFACES, THE INTREPID LAWYER DOGGEDLY SCRAMBLES TO FIND THE TRUTH - AN INVESTIGATION THAT LEADS HIM INTO A VORTEX OF GREED, CORRUPTION, DECEIT, AND MURDER. SUDDENLY CAUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW AND IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF A POWERFUL ENEMY, DANIEL MUST UNMASK AN EVIL CONSPIRACY THAT WANTS TO BUY A DEADLY SECRET ... AND DANIEL WITH IT.
I WOULD RATE THIS PAPERBACK BOOK QUALITY AS A 9.5 ( VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT).