The Associate by John Grisham

The Associate - Kyle McAvoy is editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, top of his class, and pursued by many top firms. But he plans to work in rural Virginia. He is approached “FBI agents” ready to prosecute him for an indiscretion in college a few years ago that would ruin his career. Because of this blackmail, he is forced to take a job with one the top law firms in New York and prepare to smuggle information out of the firm.