Mitch McDeere (played by Tom Cruise in the "Firm" movie) is back, 15 years after those events, but he never steps foot in a courtroom in Grisham's 49th novel, which is not even a legal thriller.

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As an example, he described a scene from the movie in which Cruise is at a copying machine, making illegal copes, and has a spot of blood on his face where he has nicked himself shaving.