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...
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Submitted by Anonymous in Franklin,
Suspenseful, great book for the long commutes. Held my interest - fast moving plot line.
Submitted by Pamela Christensen
Wow! John Grisham is such a great writer and not only did I really enjoy this story, I learned alot about class action lawsuits! It was really interesting to see how these tort lawyers operate with an almost complete lack of conscience!
Submitted by Anonymous
OK as a "no brainer", but I look to Grisham for a bit more intrigue. Definitely not one of his best.
Submitted by Jennifer Schaffer
I don't know that I have ever read or listened to a Grisham book. However, if this is typical I won't listen to anymore. It would almost get you to the edge of your seat and then leave you hanging. I absolutely hated the ending. At the end I wanted the main character dead or reformed or something. In other words, I didn't like the ending one bit. At the disc ends and your playing through alternative endings in your mind that would have better then it is not a good ending.
Submitted by Raven Okeefe
usually i enjoy grisham's writing, but i can't believe i listened to this entire book. if i had had anything -- ANYthing -- else to listen to other than the radio with its endless commercials, i would have sent it back after hearing the first few discs.
there isn't a single major or mid-level character in this book who has any integrity, character, or redeeming qualities. they are, to a man and woman, egocentric, shallow greedheads who are perfectly willing to rip off anyone and everyone so that they can be richer, richer, richest and get whatever they want. you have to ask: who CARES about them? who wants them to have a happy ending? not i.
i suppose it was illuminating to learn how these massive class action suits work, but i could have better spent the hours i wasted listening to this doing almost anything else, including driving to work and back listening to nothing at all.
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