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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...'From the Hardcover edition'
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The King of Torts, John Grisham
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- The King of Torts
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Grisham
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN10
- 0385339658
- ISBN13
- 9780385339650
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Suspense, USA, American Literature, America, Lawyers, Legal Environment, Court, Court Trials, Judiciary, Washington, Temptation, Advocacy
- First published
- 2003
- Original title
- The King of Torts
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- 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...'From the Hardcover edition'