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Patrick Berthon

    Bleachers
    The Pelican Brief
    The King of Torts
    The Innocent Man
    The Summons
    The Client
    • The Client

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.4(21832)Add rating

      An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is, at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.

      The Client
    • Ray Atlee is summonsed by his dying father to return home to discuss details of his estate - He arrives home too late and finds that his father has left behind a shocking secret.

      The Summons
    • The Innocent Man

      • 501 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.9(67309)Add rating

      John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. Whe

      The Innocent Man
    • His new international 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 upon 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...

      The King of Torts
    • The Pelican Brief

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.6(2452)Add rating

      Two Supreme Court Justices Justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind.Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief

      The Pelican Brief
    • Bleachers

      • 163 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.5(1201)Add rating

      Story of high school All - American Neely Crenshaw and relationships on the team and with the coach Eddie Rake. When Coach Rakes "boys" come home to bury him, sitting in the bleachers, Neely knows he must forgive his coach and himself to finally move on with his life.

      Bleachers
    • The Brethren

      • 366 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.5(1284)Add rating

      #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich—very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam—while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. Because they’ve just found the perfect victim.

      The Brethren