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[英文] 《The Firm 》作者: - Grisham_ John【EPUB】

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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere at least not on paper. He had the brains the ambition the good looks. And he was hungry with his background he had to be. He was married and that was mandatory. had never hired an unmarried lawyer and it frowned heavily on divorce as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be a tax lawyer which of course was a requirement with a tax firm. He was white and had never hired a black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms solicited and hired blacks. This firm recruited and remained lily white. Plus was in Memphis of all places and the top blacks wanted New York or Washington or Chicago. McDeere was a male and there were no women in . That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one grad from Harvard who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation. She lasted four turbulent years and was killed in a car wreck. He looked good on paper. He was their top choice. In fact for this year there were no other prospects. The list was very short. It was McDeere or no one. The managing partner Royce McKnight studied a dossier labeled quotMitchell Y. McDeere-Harvard.quot An inch thick with small print and a few photographs it had been prepared by some ex-CIA agents in a private intelligence outfit in Bethesda. They were clients of and each year did the investigating for no fee. It was easy work they said checking out unsuspecting law students. They learned for instance that he preferred to

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