The Client

Wow. I never thought I'd like legal thrillers, but this book was amazing. It's like there are so many loopholes you never know about, and you're reading, going, "How in the heck are they going to get out of that subpoena???" and next chapter the solution seems almost simple. It was so complex and mindbending.
So anyway, the book starts off with two kids, Mark and Ricky Sway, sneaking through the wood behind their trailer home while their mom's at work to share a cigarette. They see somebody parked ahead and notice that the guy has a tube running from his exhaust pipe into his car. Basically: suicidal. So Mark tries to talk the guy out of it and ends up sitting in the car with him, and the guy turns out to be a famous lawyer defending the mob in a huge case. (Someone in the mob killed a senator everyone pretty much knows he did it, except they can't find the body so there's no case because of the whole habeus corpus thing.)
So this lawyer, Romey, tells Mark everything he knows about the case. Then he shoots himself.
Ricky goes into shock and Mark ends up scared to death. The police want him to talk, but he knows the mob will stop at nothing to shut him up, so he hires himself a lawyer, one who's only been practicing law for FOUR YEARS. And she's 52 years old. Her name is Reggie Love, and with her help Mark may just figure a way to get out of the justice system alive.
SUCH a good book, although it is kinda long. Now I want to see the movie.