The Clientby John Grisham

Members:Santiago Bernabeu

Lucia IruruetaMatías Colquhoun

Nicolás Monetti

Mark Sway was 11 years old and his brother called Ricky was 8 years old. They lived in a trailer with his mom. She left their father, because he was always drunk and violent. Mark was like Ricky´s father. After school, Mark was teaching Ricky how to smoke when suddenly a car with a man drinking whisky appeared.

This man was Jerome Clifford. He was the lawyer of a leader of the mafia, called Barry the Blade. He knew an important secret. Barry had killed a senator and had hidden the body in Clifford´s house. Jerome was frightened. He told the boys the secret and commited suicide. Mark called the police.

Ricky got shocked, so all the family went to St. Peter´s Hospital. A cop asked Mark about the lawyer´s body. Mark said that he saw him when he was already dead. He didn´t talk about the secret because he was scared.

Roy Foltrigg was a lawyer that worked for the government. He was investigating about the senator´s murder. He knew that it was related to the mafia and wanted to find the body. He talked with 2 FBI officers. They wanted to talk with Mark because they knew that he was lying.

Ricky was still in shock. Dr Greenway said it was a difficult case but he would be all right. Mark refused to talk with the FBI.

Mark wanted to see a lawyer before the meeting with the FBI, so he went to the office of a lawyer called Gill Teal. It was full of people. Suddenly, a cop appeared, so he entered another office and met a lawyer called Reggie Love.

Mark told all the truth to Reggie but he didn´t say where the body was hidden. Although Mark didn´t have too much money, Reggie accepted the case. Ricky woke up, but he didn´t want to talk.

Mark met the FBI and the officers started to ask questions to him. He refused to talk. They couldn´t ask him questions when he was alone. Suddenly, Reggie, that had recorded the conversation, appeared and defended him.

Johnny, Barry´s uncle, who was head of the Mafia got angry because Barry told Clifford the location of the body. Mark talked with Slick Moeller, a reporter that was writing about the suicide. Mark told his mom the truth about what Ricky and him had seen.

Mark was worried after seeing his face on the local newspaper. A man called Gronke, that was part of the mafia, threatened him inside the hospital's lift. After this, he met Reggie in a cafe and told her about this. She wanted Mark to talk to the FBI . Roy Foltrigg was angry and wanted the kid to be followed.

The media was waiting for Mark at the hospital when he arrived with Reggie. Doctor Greenway tried to talk to Rick but he wasn't able. Mark went to sleep to Reggie's house . Gronk was outside Reggie's house, watching everything.

Mark's picture was on the front page of the newspaper again. When Mark and Reggie arrived at the hospital, Dianne was crying because their trailer had been burned apparently by The Mafia. Foltrigg kept on insisting Mark to talk, he made the judge Harry Roosevelt sign an order for Mark to stay in prison until the trial when he was supposed to talk.The police took Mark to prison by force.

Harry let Reggie talked to Mark; The kid asked Reggie what to say at the trial. Slick Moeller blackmailed the courtroom guard and got some information about what was happening in the courtroom .

Slick's story about Mark's courtroom appeared in the newspaper . Gronke was sure that Mark was not going to talk. Mark stayed in prison, feeling terrified and frightened because of the Mafia.

The judge agreed that Mark was in danger, so returned him to custody. Mark pretended to be in shock. They carried him to the hospital, where he escaped. He went with Reggie to New Orleans.

Mark and Reggie arrived at Clifford´s house. They saw Muldano and two men removing the senator´s body. Reggie threw her shoe to the opposite house. Bells rang everywhere. Muldano and the men left the body and escaped. Mark and Reggie confirmed that it was the senator´s body.

Mark, Ricky and their mom moved to Phoenix because of the witness protection programme. After this, Reggie told the FBI the location of the body.

The end