The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 15

The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 15

The Firm by John Grisham book summary

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter FIFTEEN

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The friendship between Abby and Kay Quinn was still in its infancy. Select the word which best describes Abby’s approach to forming friendships:

1.      Cautious

2.      Aggressive

3.      Apathetic

4.      Unwilling

1.      Cautious

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Why does Kay Quinn think that the firm is so concerned with the private lives of their employees and actively encourages their lawyers to start families with children?

Kay thinks that the company wants ‘happy lawyers with stable families’.

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Mitch arranged to meet someone under an old monument to the Confederates in the middle of a local park in the middle of a sleet storm. Who did he plan to meet, and why do you think they chose quite such a secluded spot?

He had arranged to meet Eddie Lomax, the private detective. Mitch was concerned that he was being followed and bugged and so didn’t want any phone contact with Eddie, nor did he feel safe visiting Eddie at his office. This secluded spot seemed to offer them the security that they needed.

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Eddie has researched the deaths of the three lawyers who died in supposedly tragic circumstances. He seems to think that all three cases were suspicious. Why in particular did he think that the death of Alice Knauss was suspicious?

She died in a car accident when a drunk driver hit her car with a stolen truck; however the driver was never found or identified. A broken bottle of Jack Daniels led the police to conclude that the driver had been drunk.

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What was Eddie’s opinion of Terrance, the FBI agent?

Eddie thought that Terrance was one of the FBI’s best agents who had been transferred to the area from New York around two years previously.

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The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 12

The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 12

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Chapter Twelve

Chapter TWELVE
50 128 What is Ray’s relationship with Mitch They are brothers.
51 130 Ray is said to have a great aptitude for learning what? New languages
52 132 What crime was Ray prosecuted for? Second degree murder in Nashville.
53 139 Ray connects Mitch with Eddie, a private detective who had been Ray’s cell mate for a number of years. What does Mitch ask Eddie to investigate? He asks Eddie to investigate four people. The first three are the three lawyers to have died under mysterious circumstances, and whose portraits were now in the main library. The fourth was Terrance, the FBI agent.

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The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 18

The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 18

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Chapter Eighteen

Chapter EIGHTEEN
79 206 The twenty-eighth of December is a special day in the life of the firm every year. Why? Each year, on the twenty-eighth, there is a lavish lunch party thrown on the fifth floor for all of the partners. Over lunch, each partner’s billing records is read out and compared. The total company profit is assessed and each partner is given a handsome bonus. Smaller bonuses are given to each associate.
80 210 After the celebration on the fifth floor, the partners are all in a celebratory mood following the revelation of some very good financial reports. DeVere ruins Locke’s mood, however. What news has he received? DeVere has been in contact with a man by the name of Lazarov who was sceptical that Mitch really has had no further contact with the FBI. As a precaution, he gave DeVasher orders to monitor Mitch twenty-four hours a day.
81 215 Mitch travels to Ernie’s Airport Lounge to meet someone. Who is this, and why do they want to meet Mitch He is there to meet Eddie Lomax’s secretary, Tammy Hemphill. She wanted to see Mitch as she was scared that she may be murdered by the same people as murdered Lomax. She knew that Lomax was working on Mitch’s case and thought that he could shed some light on what could have happened to him.
82 216 Tammy Hemphill and Mitch agree to stay in touch. She is to send him letters informing him about her whereabouts. As a precaution they agree on a pseudonym, Doris. How do they come up with that name? Doris was the name of Tammy’s mother so they select that name as her code name.

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The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 17

The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 17

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Chapter Seventeen

Chapter SEVENTEEN
75 195 Abby phoned her parents early Christmas morning. Why did they tell her that they were disappointed? Her parents told Abby that they were disappointed that Mitch wasn’t going to join her when she visited them later in the day.
76 196 When Mitch sets off on the Interstate 55, he stopped every sixty minutes on the hard shoulder. Why was this? He stopped to let Heresay ‘do his business’, but he also took the opportunity to see if he was being followed.
77 201 Who does Mitch hope to see at the Waffle house at midnight on Christmas day? His mother who works there.
78 204 Eddie Lomax is murdered after being hired by a desperate new client. Describe the plot used to entrap and kill him. A new client offered Lomax a great deal of money to take on a case at very short notice. Travelling to the car park of a motel, Lomax waits to take some photos on behalf of the client however it is all a set up and he is shot dead by a man waiting in a van behind his car. The supposed new client then leaves in the same van as the assassin.

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The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 19

The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 19

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Chapter Nineteen

Chapter NINETEEN
83 219 Why does Avery tell Mitch that he was lucky to have been accepted at the firm, rather than taking a job on Wall Street? Avery tells Mitch that on Wall street, the big companies hire large numbers of lawyers who they ‘run into the ground’. Over work and under pay until half of them leave. Unlike Mitch, junior lawyers at these firms never get to see the company limo or Lear Jet.
84 221 When Avery reaches the Cayman islands he has twenty five boxes unloaded from the pane. What do these boxes contain? Cash. Six and a half million dollars.
85   During the conference registration, Mitch is approached by Grant Harbison. Who is Harbison and what does he give Mitch? Grant Harbison is an FBI agent and gives mitch his card and an envelope containing a note from F. Denton Voyles, the Director of the FBI, asking to see Mitch for a few moments during lunch.
86 225-226 Who was Rusty McDeere and how did he die. Rusty McDeere was Mitch’s brother. He died in Vietnam after stepping on a landmine.
87 228 When Mitch finally meets Director Voyles, he is given some shocking news which connects all five of the firm’s lawyers to have died in mysterious circumstances. What is this? He is told that no lawyer has ever left the company. Five have tried, and they each were killed.
88 228 Mitch is told that the company is not really owned by the partners. Who does really own the firm? The Morolto family. A mafia family based in Chicago.
89 229 Director Voyles tells Mitch that the FBI never had any contact with the first three lawyers who worked for the firm and died mysteriously. Why was this? The FBI only became aware of the firm’s activities seven years ago. Since then they have had the company under heavy surveillance.
90 230 When an associate is going to be given a partnership, he is told the truth about the company. Voyles says that the company gives the candidate ‘a choice he can’t refuse’. What is this choice and do you think it means? He is given the choice between becoming a multi-millionaire and having his picture hung in the library. Each of the five lawyers who tried to leave had their portraits hung in the library. They are thus given the choice between being murdered or becoming a partner and making obscene amounts of money.
91 233 Director Voyles tells Mitch all about Locke’s history. Outline how he ended up in Memphis. Locke grew up as a poor kid in Chicago and started running errands for Morolto from the age of ten. After he managed to ‘scratch through law school’ he was sent to work at the Firm as he was always a favourite of Morolto.
92 235 Mitch tells Director Voyles that ‘the mob never forgets’. What do you think he means by this. Voyles has offered to protect and relocate Mitch if he cooperates. Mitch is concerned that the Mob will never stop looking for him and so even if he is safe for ten years or more, eventually the mob will find him and exact their revenge.
93 236 Why was Mitch selected by the FBI for this task? The FBI decided that he was perfect as he had no family except his wife. He had been hurt by everyone he had ever met, except Abby. He raised himself and in so doping became self-reliant. All of this means that he doesn’t need the firm. He is strong enough and independent enough to walk away and bring the firm down in the process.



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The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 21

The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 21

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Chapter Twenty-One

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
1. 255 After the excitement and unpredictability of the last few chapters, Mitch’s routine returns to normal resulting in him being forced to eat his lunch where, on most days? At his desk.
2 256 Why did Abby now move silently around her own home and constantly feel violated? She knew that she was being monitored by the surveillance equipment which she now knew was installed throughout her house.
3 257 When Mitch discovers an envelope with the words “Photographs – Do not bend” written on it, we are told that his “heart returned with the fury of a jackhammer”. What do you think that this phrase means? His heart started beating very hard.
4 259 Devasher and Locke have very different jobs to perform at the Firm. How do they feel about each other? We are told that “The two men hated each other, and made no attempt to be cordial”.
5 260 In view of the circumstances surrounding Mitch’s contact with the FBI, we discover that “Lazarov has put a freeze on hiring”. What do you think that this means? It means that the Firm have temporarily stopped hiring new employees.
6 262 Lazarov wants to as much influence as possible over McDeere. What does he order DeVasher to do to get even more ‘leverage’? Lazarov wants Abby to get pregnant. She is currently ‘on the pill’ which is a chemical contraceptive. DeVasher thus plans to break into their house and replace the real medication with placebos, fake pills which will not prevent pregnancy.

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