The Street Lawyer Grisham, John

A lawyer making half a million a year gets held hostage by a homeless man with a stick of dynamite. Michael Brock walks out of that office a different person. What was supposed to be a random act of violence turns out to be anything but — the hostage-taker had a reason, and when Michael digs into it, he discovers his own prestigious firm helped orchestrate an eviction that left families on the streets in the dead of winter. So he quits. Trades the mahogany desk for a storefront legal clinic serving DC's homeless population. Grisham strips away the courtroom theatrics here and writes something angrier, more direct. This is about what happens when comfortable people are forced to see the invisible. It's also about a man stealing his own firm's files, which makes for some genuinely tense cat-and-mouse sequences. For anyone who loved the moral urgency of *The Rainmaker* or wants Grisham with more bite.