Doubleday Announces New John Grisham Novel
Doubleday in the U.S. will publish “The Exchange” by John Grisham on October 17 this year. The novel is a sequel to Grisham’s first bestseller “The Firm,” which turned Grisham into a household name worldwide in 1991. “The Exchange” is set 15 years after the events in “The Firm” and tells a new adventure starring Mitch McDeere and his wife Abby.
His 1991 thriller “The Firm” catapulted U.S. author John Grisham to worldwide fame. “The Firm” stayed on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for almost a year and was made into a film starring Tom Cruise. And it was this first big bestseller that allowed Grisham to give up his law practice and devote himself entirely to writing. Now John Grisham returns to the world of “The Firm” and its protagonist Mitch McDeere. “The Exchange” is the sequel to the story told in “The Firm,” and will be published by Doubleday, a Penguin Random House U.S. publisher, on October 17 this year.
“When last seen in ‘The Firm’, Mitch McDeere and his wife Abby were fleeing Memphis with the bad guys in hot pursuit,” says Grisham. “Now they’re back, fifteen years later, and living in New York where Mitch is an international lawyer and a partner in a mega-firm. His work takes him across the globe, and not always to safe places. During a trip to Libya, his trusted associate is kidnapped, and an execution is threatened unless an enormous ransom is paid. Only Mitch can facilitate the exchange, and I hope readers have as much fun with the novel as I am writing it.”
“To have John Grisham’s 49th book return to the world of Mitch and Abby McDeere is truly a full-circle moment,” says Suzanne Herz, Grisham’s publisher at Doubleday. “Over thirty years ago John crafted a brilliant thriller filled with deadly secrets, corporate intrigue, and an unforgettable fictional hero. ‘The Firm’ defined the legal thriller genre and has stood the test of time. Readers will be thrilled to see what happens next to Mitch in ‘The Exchange’.”
Since it was first published in 1991, “The Firm” has never gone out of print in the U.S. The same is true for Germany, where all of Grisham’s novels are published in hardcover and paperback by Heyne.
