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Books like The Firm

12 books with a reading profile close to The Firm by John Grisham. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

Whiteout

by Ken Follett

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

The plot centers on Toni Gallo, the head of security for a pharmaceutical lab in Scotland, who discovers a vial of the lethal Madoba-2 virus has been stolen.
2

The Broker

by John Grisham

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Joel Backman is a high-stakes Washington power broker who once peddled influence at the highest levels of government.
3

Look Again

by Lisa Scottoline

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

Ellen Gleeson, a single mother and journalist, receives a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail featuring a face that matches her adopted son, Will.
4

The Partner

by John Grisham

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

After faking his own death in a car accident, Mississippi lawyer Patrick Lanigan flees to Brazil with ninety million dollars stolen from his firm’s offshore accounts.
5

The Club

by Ellery Lloyd

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

The Club follows the elite staff and celebrity members of Home Group during the violent launch of Island Home, a private resort off the English coast.
6

Zero Days

by Ruth Ware

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Jack and Gabe are a husband-and-wife team of professional pen-testers hired by companies to hack security systems and physically breach office buildings.
7

The Chemist

by Stephenie Meyer

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Alex is a former government interrogator living underground to escape the agency that once employed her.
8

Op-Center

by Jeff Rovin, Tom Clancy

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

The story follows Paul Hood, the newly appointed director of the National Crisis Management Center, a high-tech intelligence agency designed to bypass traditional bureaucracy.
9

Games of state

by Jeff Rovin, Tom Clancy

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

In this third installment of the Op-Center series, Director Paul Hood and his crisis management team confront a resurgence of neo-Nazi extremism in unified Germany.
10

False Memory

by Dean Koontz

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

Martie Rhodes experiences a sudden, paralyzing fear of her own reflection, a condition known as autophobia.
11

Personal

by Lee Child

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

In Lee Child’s nineteenth Jack Reacher novel, the protagonist is recruited by the State Department and the CIA to track down John Kott, a world-class sniper recently released from prison.
12

The Sentinel

by Lee Child, Andrew Child

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

Jack Reacher hitches a ride to a quiet town in Tennessee, where he intervenes in an ambush targeting Rusty Rutherford, a local IT manager.

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