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Language English ISBN 978-0-385-53714-8 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Publication date October 23, 2014 Originally published 21 October 2014 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third-year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virginia's coal mining country.
Notable facts
The novel describes the great danger to the environment posed by strip-mining for coal.
Grisham consulted with Mary Cromer, an attorney with the Appalachian Citizen's Law Center and a Washington and Lee University School of Law alumna, as research for the novel. This is one of the few Grisham novels which feature a strong female protagonist (Samantha Kofer). Scully & Pershing, the law firm Kofer is furloughed from in New York City, is the same law firm that employed Kyle McAvoy in Grisham's novel The Associate (2009).