King Of Torts, The

John Grisham's bestselling backlist repackaged with fantastic new covers

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-

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John Grisham is the author of eighteen bestselling novels. He lives with his family in Virginia and Mississippi.

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Page-turningly compulsive,Grisham reigns supreme...The King of Torts is another tremendous tour de force,A rollercoaster ride,This novel has incident to burn, a clean, pacy style and a conclusion that will blindside the reader