[ApK]

I just finished John Grisham's "The Firm." It is universally categorized as a "legal thriller."
It is NOT a legal thriller by any meaningful definition I can come up with.
It's a crime thriller at best. The fact that it was set at a law firm and the protagonist was a lawyer was incidental. It could have been about a stock broker, an accountant, or just about any white collar type who deals with client's money. There was no legal wrangling, no law arguments, no court room drama.
Aside from that, I found the first 3/4s of the book very slow. Not any kind of a thriller. It may have been due partially to the narrator, Scott Brick, who I found a bit blah.