Three law school students realise they have no hope of getting a job even if they successfully graduate from their low quality law school, but will nevertheless be saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, so they decide to set up as a fake law firm and hustle for business at the law courts for minor convictions. They make some money but eventually things go wrong and people start coming after them.

From what I've read, this is Grisham's attempt to highlight the way that law schools charge students tons of money and offer very dubious levels of teaching and discharge their graduates into a job market which is already over full, and not keen to take on lawyers who've got low quality degrees.

Very easy to read: undemanding, but it felt extremely lightweight. The cover has a quote from Ken Follet "the best thriller writer alive". Which I can't believe anyone would say on the basis of this book - it wasn't very thrilling although it slipped down nicely and there was a bit of satisfaction to be had as they managed (a bit) to get one over on The Man.

Completed : 21-Oct-2018