The King Of Torts

every week.As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrible to believe. 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. 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, a

Unloveable "hero" I think John Grisham is one of the best authors ever and most of his books are well-plotted and supremely clever, but this one reads a bit like an airy Mary Higgins-Clark novella. The "hero" isn't exactly likeable either as he has dubious moral standards (ripping off sick people,. jbGreat legal thriller jb4wiganfc John Grisham is a master at the legal thriller. They can have a tendency to sound the same if you run through several of the books one after another because of the similar themes of law and things but they certainly have a fast flowing and dynamic pace.Grisham can draw the reader. wiganfc said Great legal thriller. John Grisham is a master at the legal thriller. They can have a tendency to sound the same if you run through several of the books one after another because of the similar themes of law and things but they certainly have a fast flowing and dynamic pace.Grisham can draw the reader. Excellent book! Loved this book! Good surprises. at the turn of events.

From Publishers Weekly Grisham continues to impress with his daring, venturing out of legal thrillers entirely for A Painted House and Skipping Christmas (the re-release of which this past fall was itself a bold move) and, within the genre, working major variations. He can be didactic (" `Nobody earns ten million dollars in six months, Clay,' " a friend warns. He is crowned by the press the new King of Torts, with enough money to hobnob with the other, venal-hearted tort royalty, to buy a Porsche, a Georgetown townhouse and a private jet, but not enough to forget his heartache over the woman he loves,