Jeremy Blachman Books In Order

Anonymous Lawyer

A wickedly funny debut novel about a high powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He’s a hiring partner at one of the world s largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretary s desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he s just started a weblog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession.
Meet Anonymous Lawyer corner office, granite desk, and a billable rate of $675 an hour. The summer is about to start, and he s got a new crop of law school interns who will soon sign away their lives for a six figure salary at the firm. But he s also got a few problems that require his attention. There s The Jerk, his bitter rival at the firm, who is determined to do whatever it takes to beat him out for the chairman s job. There s Anonymous Wife, who is spending his money as fast as he can make it. And there s that secret blog he s writing, which is a perverse bit of fun until he gets an e mail from someone inside the firm who knows he s its author.
Written in the form of a blog, Anonymous Lawyer is a spectacularly entertaining debut that rips away the bland fa ade of corporate law and offers a telling glimpse inside a frightening world. Hilarious and fiendishly clever, Jeremy Blachman s tale of a lawyer who lives a lie and posts the truth is sure to be one of the year s most talked about novels.