The king of torts /
Grisham, John
The king of torts / John Grisham. - 1st ed - New York : Doubleday, c2003 - 376 pages ; 25 cm
Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming 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
Fiction
0385508042 9780385508049
2003269436
Pharmaceutical industry--Fiction
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
Legal fiction (Literature)
Thrillers (Fiction)
PS3557.R5355 / K55 2003b
813/.54
The king of torts / John Grisham. - 1st ed - New York : Doubleday, c2003 - 376 pages ; 25 cm
Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming 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
Fiction
0385508042 9780385508049
2003269436
Pharmaceutical industry--Fiction
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
Legal fiction (Literature)
Thrillers (Fiction)
PS3557.R5355 / K55 2003b
813/.54