The King of Torts -- John Grisham, Paperback

#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...

Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 01/31/2012
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780345531995

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 68168 / King of Torts

About the Author

John Grisham is the author of twenty-three novels, including, most recently, The Litigators; one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and a novel for young readers. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.