Yeah, The Firm.
You want to have a few minutes of fun some time, grab any of his first 5 or 10 novels and look at the sentence structure:
“It was a grim day. The clouds were mounting. The air was chilling. He walked on the sidewalk alone. He passed a tennis court. It was empty. The green asphalt looked almost like grass. But it wasn’t.”
“He reached into his pocket. A piece of scrap paper was there. He took it out and read it. ‘Always write short sentences and short chapters. Your books will sell better at airports.’”
What could that mean? He was a lawyer, not a writer.
He kept walking.
John Grisham is a RICH ex lawyer, ex Baptist Deacon, turned “writer”.