Samantha Kofer is a lawyer at a major New York City law firm, which is hit hard at the onset of the Great Recession. Rather than lay her off, the firm suggests that Sam conduct a charity service while she is put on furlough for a year. Sam takes up on the offer since she has no other choice and relocates to Virginia's Appalachian Mountains. She finds a job with a woman named Mattie, who runs a legal aid firm in the town of Brady. Mattie and another woman, Annette, take up cases in the town. At first, Sam does not fit in, but eventually warms up to Mattie and the townspeople.
Sam eventually meets Mattie's nephew, Donovan Gray. Donovan fills in that he and his firm have been battling against the strip-coal mining businesses in the town. Several employees of the coal mines work themselves until they are sick and the businesses have cut corners on safety measures, resulting in a few deaths. The coal mining has also contaminated the town's water supply.
Sam meets Donovan's brother Jeff, who acquired some important documents from the coal businesses, showing that the companies' owners deliberately allowed the sludge from the mines to runoff into the rivers. Donovan intends to sue the companies, but he is killed in a mysterious plane crash. Jeff is convinced that the coal mine owners sabotaged Donovan's plane in order to keep the evidence from leaking out.
Notable factsedit
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.[2] This is one of the few Grisham novels which feature a strong female protagonist (Samantha Kofer).[3] Scully & Pershing, the law firm in New York City that Kofer is employed by,[4] is the same firm that employed Kyle McAvoy in Grisham's novel The Associate (2009).[5]
Notesedit
^Shaffi, Sarah (June 25, 2014). "Grisham to tackle recession in Gray Mountain". The Bookseller. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
^Jetton, Peter (December 1, 2014). "Author John Grisham Turns to W&L Law Alumna for Help with Recent Novel". Washington and Lee University. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
^Schoemann-McCann, Molly. "John Grisham Explores New Territory in Gray Mountain". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
^Grisham, John (November 12, 2014). "Excerpt from 'Gray Mountain'". Newsday. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
^Maslin, Janet (January 25, 2009). "Another Young Lawyer Is Served Up for Breakfast". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
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