What I appreciate the most about a John Grisham novel is his ability to write characters that feel so organic. I won’t get into what happens from then on, but the plot thickens quite nicely. This leads Michael through a journey of discovery, by which he finds out that his own law firm assisted in the eviction of Mister and several other homeless. The ordeal causes Michael Brock to rethink his stance on the homeless, and thus he begins to dig into the history of Mister. The hostage situation ends in a messy fashion, but our protagonist Michael Brock gets out of the situation intact. A group of lawyers are held hostage by a homeless man known as “Mister”. Was I disappointed by The Street Lawyer? Not at all the opening chapter does a fantastic job of hooking the reader, creating a tense hostage situation at a law firm known as Drake & Sweeney. I ordered the book on my Kindle with little to no hesitation, remembering that these spontaneous moments are what make me love being a reader. It gave me flashbacks of the final season of The Wire, which included a story-arch on the homeless people of Baltimore. I went on Amazon and looked up all his books, The Street Lawyer stood out to me because of the summary.
I remembered reading John Grisham’s The Firm before on a flight, so I decided that something from Grisham’s body of work would satisfy my itch nicely. I had an itch to read something slightly more humane and set in a real world working environment.
I chose to read The Street Lawyer because I was a little overwhelmed by all the fantasy and sci-fi that I’d been reading.
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