The Client
by John Grisham
The Client is a legal thriller by John Grisham, first published by Doubleday in New York in 1993. An eleven-year-old boy from a Memphis trailer park learns where a murdered senator's body is hidden and finds a lawyer to protect him from the FBI and the mob.
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- 2
- First published
- Doubleday, New York, 1993
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Prizes and screen
On screen
- The Client Film, 1994
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How many editions of The Client are there?
We track 2 editions of The Client. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Has The Client been adapted for film or television?
Yes, including The Client (film, 1994).
Where these facts come from
- The Client (novel), Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Grisham, John: The Client, University of Virginia 20th-Century American Bestsellers (bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu)
- The client (1993), Internet Archive (archive.org)
- The Client, Wikidata (wikidata.org)
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