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Bennie And Jones Chapter Summary

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The novel centers on Kyle McAvoy, star athlete, editor of the Yale Law Journal, onetime Eagle Scout who is fielding offers from prestigious law firms that are offering him six figure salaries. The idealistic Kyle plans, however, first to give back to the community by doing legal aid work with migrant workers and then to join a New York firm Scully & Pershing. Kyle is later visited by a man called Bennie Wright who knows about Kyle’s only skeleton in his closet – three years back, when he was senior in college, Kyle and three fraternity brothers had possibly raped a freshman girl, Elaine – who may have passed out during the encounter - in a drunken stupor, which Kyle witnessed but didn’t partake. One of them recorded the episode with his cellphone …show more content…

Kyle moves to Manhattan, knowing that he’s under constant surveillance, and starts his career at the firm. The work is abundant, and the associates, as Kyle finds out, are expected to work 50 to 100 hours a week. While struggling to mange work, spy for Bennie, Kyle enlists the aid of fellow students who were involved in the alleged rape, trying to get to the bottom of what really happened that night, hoping that the discovery of the truth will provide a way out of his bind. The plot thickens when Elaine re-emerges, who maintains that she was raped, and when Baxter Tate, one of the four people involved, wants to make amends to Elaine. His admission of guilt will give Elaine the proof she requires and will affect everyone involved in the …show more content…

Kyle in a bid to escape speaks with Roy Bendict, a criminal lawyer and ex-FBI operative. Together they plot to apprehend Bennie when Kyle is to meet him to hand him the files. The plan backfires, and Bennie along with his associates flee and remain unidentified. Kyle admits his role to the firm’s partners and resigns. He joins his father’s law firm where he plans to become a partner and have “a real

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