The King of Torts by John Grisham (Paperback)

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Condition: Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent Condition. Author: John Grisham Format: Paperback Publisher: Dell Pub Co ISBN-10: 0440241537 ISBN-13: 9780440241539 Subject: Mystery, Thriller Publication Year: 2003 Topic: -- Special Attributes: -- Language: English

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Synopsis
Grisham again goes after greedy tort lawyers who accumulate enormous fees in class-action settlements against corporations, with hardly anything left for the corporations' actual victims. In this novel, lawyer Clay Carter is offered a role in the case of a teenager who has shot and killed a fellow student after taking a drug that has been suspected of causing similar psychotic episodes. Offered a small fortune by the pharmaceutical company in question, Clay succumbs to greed and rises to his dubious position as "king of torts"--losing his moral fiber and the woman he loves in the process.
Size
Length:	472 pages
Height:	7 in.
Width:	4.3 in.
Thickness:	1.5 in.
Weight:	8 oz.
Publisher's Note
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts... From the Hardcover edition.
Industry reviews
"The arc of Clay's swift rise and fall is predictable yet suspenseful. Grisham's male characters are thin, the females thinner, but the novel's very trimness is its distinctive virtue." New York Times Book Review - Tim Appelo (03/09/2003)

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