The debut novel from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ?Netherland?. James Jones is slipping steadily through life. He has a steady job as a junior partner at a solicitor's firm, a steady girlfriend and a steady mortgage. Nothing much is happening in Jones's life but he really doesn't mind ? this is exactly the way he likes it. Michael Donovan, meanwhile, is a star ? a world-class international lawyer and advocate ? he's everything Jones wanted to be and isn't. Jones was once Donovan's pupil and, for a while, it looked like he too would make his name ? but he left that high-powered world behind a long time ago, or so he thought. One day Jones reads in the paper that Donovan has collapsed in court ? then, out of the blue, Donovan contacts him; he has a job he needs Jones to work on? Joseph...
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