When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray–doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail–already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice–if he wants to live.

約翰．葛里遜 (John Grisham) 全球知名的法律小說天王。1955年生於美國阿肯色州，畢業於密西西比大學法學院。曾任執業律師、州議員，1991年出版《黑色豪門企業》（The Firm）一書一炮而紅，躋身暢銷作家的行列。

葛里遜擅長描寫法律與人性，至今創作了二十餘本小說，皆是排行榜上的常勝軍，其中七部小說曾改編成電影。他的作品已被翻譯成三十餘種語言，全球的銷量超過二億五千萬冊。曾被《出版人週刊》譽為「90年代最暢銷小說家」，還與史蒂芬．金（Stephen King）、麥可．克萊頓（Michael Crichton）、湯姆．克蘭西（Tom Clancy）並稱美國「暢銷書四大天王」，也創造了「小說還在寫，電影就決定開拍」的好萊塢影視出版生產模式。

葛里遜目前居住在美國維吉尼亞和密西西比州。想要進一步了解約翰．葛里遜的相關資訊，請參考他的官方網站：www.jgrisham.com。