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Rent The King of Torts
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: Dec 2003
Genre: Fiction - Suspense
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 472
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
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Hesitate to commit myself to your audience and I have always admired Mr. Grisham. However, I think ,sadly, that he has sort of found a 'recipe' for a best-seller-- I don't find any sense of 'law commitment' in the latest of his books--just sort of 'where does the plot go from here?' Just look at the writing in 'The Firm' and 'The Client': believable people with believable dialogue. 'King of Torts' is an exercize for the author. ---from an old English teacher