Gray Mountain

In John Grisham's Gray Mountain, this legal thriller deviated from his regular legal thrillers and told the story from a female MC's POV that would leave you speechless. For Samantha Kofer, her job at a Wall Street Firm had came to the end, when it's been downsized and she's one of the people who's been furloughed out of there. As she looked for work as an intern, she had gotten lucky to work at a legal aid clinic in Brady, Virginia in Appalachia county. At first she didn't have much of a welcome to meet her employees, but she had learned the ropes the hard way for her first couple of months at the job. She helped her clients who were poor and dealing with a variety of topics from divorce and domestic abuse, wills, meth use, and fighting the coal companies. That's when she met Donovan Gray, a prestigious lawyer who made it his business to stop the coal companies strip mining the mountains and wrecking havoc in various lands. When Donovan informs her about what this big league coal companies were up to, she became curious to know more. But in Appalachia, she had been dealt with threats from those coal companies who won't back down and take no for an answer. Her clients trusted her and her legalese for help and made new friends with the people in the clinic. But when Donovan died in a plane crash, things change and the FBI breathed down their neck. It was up to Samantha and Donovan's brother Jeff to help set things right before things got troublesome for them, right before she decides if she wants pack up to go back to NYC or stay aboard in Virginia.

This was an interesting and compelling legal thriller that deals with real life issues concerning coal mining and the downside of it. I did care for Samantha as she learns how things had gotten badly with the people in and around Brady, Virginia. But she did make the right decision in the end.  I also felt sorrow when Donovan mysteriously died in his plane crash that had changed things around. I enjoyed getting to know more about Annette and Mattie and how they made her felt welcomed and to fit in. I did love the vast array of scenic arrangements from Brady Virginia to parts of Tennessee and Kentucky and West Virginia. I did find Gray Mountain captivating that it was isolated and safe from mining on the mountain. This would make you wonder and shake your head with non-stop action, plenty of intrigue and suspense, and lots of legal drama to keep you compelled on every page.

Will you make a trip down to Gray Mountain and see for yourself today?