#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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...
Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 02/04/2003
ISBN: 9780385508049
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.46w x 1.21d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2002 pg. 76
People Weekly 02/10/2003 pg. 49
Publishers Weekly 02/03/2003 pg. 56
USA Today 02/03/2003 pg. 1
New York Times 03/09/2003 pg. 22
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 68168 / King of Torts
Reading Level: 6 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 17