Ingenious, immersive and page-turning, The Rooster Bar is a John Grisham legal thriller bar none. But to do so, they have to leave law school, pretend they are qualified and go into battle with a billionaire and the FBI.

Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specialising in student loans, the three realise they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. They all borrowed heavily to attend a law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. As third-year students, they realise they have been duped. But these days these three disillusioned friends spend a lot of time hanging out in The Rooster Bar, the place where Todd serves drinks. Law students Mark, Todd and Zola wanted to change the world – to make it a better place. John Grisham’s legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that shouldn’t exist. Theyre better off hanging out at The Rooster Bar, plotting how to dodge the loan sharks. In John Grisham The Rooster Bar (2017) centres on three law students struggling with debt who discover that both their school and their student-loan bank are owned by a questionable Wall Street investor. An investigative article in the September 2014 edition of The Atlantic magazine by Paul Camp chronicled the evils of many for-profit law schools that operate independent of traditional colleges. Mark, Todd and Zola are starting to realise its not even worth graduating from law school. In his Author’s Note at the conclusion of THE ROOSTER BAR, John Grisham explains to readers how the plot of his 33rd novel came about. ‘The Best Thriller Writer Alive’ Ken Follett Instead theyre facing a mountain of debt and no hope of a future.

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham