Details
Rent The Appeal
Author:
Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: Nov 2008
Genre: Fiction - Legal
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 496
Synopsis
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst 'cancer cluster' in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided?
The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.
The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave listeners unable to think about our electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
by John Grisham
Nate O'Riley, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and recovering alcoholic, must fight both a morally corrupt legal system and his own recurring addiction to...
by John Lescroart
Attorney Dismas Hardy is hurled into a world of greed and violence when he makes a horrifying discovery, which threatens his family and his...
by John Lescroart
Bored with his life as a legal consultant, lawyer Dismas Hardy agrees to be the second chair for a case being tried by his associate, Amy Wu. Having...
by Lisa Scottoline
When successful estates lawyer Jack Newlin confesses to the murder of his heiress wife, both his youthful attorney Mary DNunzio and veteran detective...
by John Grisham
Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned home to Clanton, Mississippi, by their ailing father to discuss his will. But...
by John Lescroart
When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, homicide inspector Devin Juhle targets a suspect close to home: her husband, Stuart...
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
In Nina O'Reilly's tenth suspenseful outing, the attorney is temporarily away from her home turf in Lake Tahoe, staying with her boyfriend, P. I. Paul...
by John Lescroart
Assigned to a desk job after recovering from a near-fatal gunshot wound, lieutenant Abe Glitsky becomes involved in the investigation into a murdered...
by John Grisham
The partners at Finley Figg often refer to themselves as a boutique law firm. Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally...
Reviews
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel...but was definitely caught off guard by the ending. Not my favorite Grisham book, but still a good read.