![]() ![]() Inspired by Green and shaken by his firm's complicity, Michael volunteers at a homeless shelter. The next day, Michael visits the shabby offices of Mister's attorney, Mordecai Green, who explains that Mister and others had been illegally evicted from makeshift housing on orders from a real-estate development company represented by Michael's firm. ""I'm alive! I'm alive,"" Michael cries like Ebenezer Scrooge, but, like Scrooge, this greedy hotshot is ripe for a moral awakening. Among the nine is narrator Michael Brock, an antitrust lawyer who receives a faceful of blood when a police sniper blows away Mister's head. ![]() The expected powerhouse opening involves the hostage-taking-by an armed, homeless man who calls himself Mister-of nine attorneys of a huge law firm headquartered in D.C. America's most popular author is arguably its most popular crusader as well, tilting his pen against myriad targets, including big law (The Firm, etc.), big tobacco (The Runaway Jury), big insurance (The Rainmaker) and now, in perhaps his sweetest, shortest novel, against anyone, big or little, who treats the homeless as less than human. ![]()
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