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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.
- Sales Rank: #1157468 in Books
- Brand: Dell
- Published on: 2003-12-16
- Released on: 2003-12-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.00" w x 4.15" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 472 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
Grisham continues to impress with his daring, venturing out of legal thrillers entirely for A Painted House and Skipping Christmas (the re-release of which this past fall was itself a bold move) and, within the genre, working major variations. Here's his most unusual legal thriller yet--a story whose hero and villain are the same, a young man with the tragic flaw of greed; a story whose suspense arises not from physical threat but moral turmoil, and one that launches a devastating assault on a group of the author's colleagues within the law. Mass tort lawyers are Grisham's target, the men (they're all men here, at least) who win billion-dollar class-action settlements from corporations selling bad products, then rake fantastic fees off the top, with far smaller payouts going to the people harmed by the products. Clay Carter is a burning-out lawyer at the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in Washington, D.C., when he catches the case of a teen who, for no apparent reason, has gunned down an acquaintance. Clay is approached by a mysterious stranger, the enigmatic Max Pace, who says he represents a megacorporation whose bad drug caused the teen--and others--to kill. The corporation will pay Clay $10 million to settle with all the murder victims at $5 million per, if all is accomplished on the hush-hush; that way, the corporation avoids trial and possibly much higher jury awards. After briefly examining his conscience, Clay bites. He quits the OPD, sets up his own firm and settles the cases. In reward, Pace gives him a present--a mass tort case based on stolen evidence but worth tens of millions in fees. Clay lunges again, eventually winning over a hundred million in fees. He is crowned by the press the new King of Torts, with enough money to hobnob with the other, venal-hearted tort royalty, to buy a Porsche, a Georgetown townhouse and a private jet, but not enough to forget his heartache over the woman he loves, who dumped him as a loser right before his career took off. Clay's financial/legal hubris knows few bounds, and soon he's overextended, his future hanging on the results of one product liability trial. The tension is considerable throughout, and readers will like the gentle ending, but Grisham's aim here clearly is to educate as he entertains. He can be didactic (" `Nobody earns ten million dollars in six months, Clay,' " a friend warns. " `You might win it, steal it, or have it drop out of the sky, but nobody earns money like that. It's ridiculous and obscene' "), but readers will applaud Grisham's fierce moral stance (while perhaps wondering what sort of advance he got for this book) as they cling to his words every step along the way of this powerful and gripping morality tale.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
“Rousing . . . Another pedal-to-the-metal crowd-pleaser.”—People
“Offers everything one expects from Grisham . . . delivers with a vengeance.”—The Seattle Times
“Satisfying . . . a lot of fun . . . When you finish it, you’re ready to dash on to the next Grisham.”—Entertainment Weekly
“A thrill ride of twists and turns.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
From the Inside Flap
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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great legal thriller
By jb4wiganfc
John Grisham is a master at the legal thriller. They can have a tendency to sound the same if you run through several of the books one after another because of the similar themes of law and things but they certainly have a fast flowing and dynamic pace.
Grisham can draw the reader into the lives of his characters and have them rooting for a protagonist in a hurry.
His strength in drawing in the reader is very rare and makes him at the top of the game.
The King of Torts makes you root for a young lawyer who much like Icarus flies too close to the sun and is burned but manages to survive.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Do you think Grisham is an advocate of tort reform???
By L. Quido
National news coverage of the doctors' campaign against tort reform is just beginning. Grisham shows a side of the tort battle where attorneys wage war against pharmaceutical companies. Since neither (attorneys or pharmaceutical companies) can escape public scorn, it feels a little like the bad guys fighting the bad guys. So, it's a stretch to determine who you want to win!
Grisham has an anti-hero, Clay Carver, in the role of legal eagle this time. We're supposed to believe that he's spent the better part of the last 4 years as a public defender, and in a relationship with a wealthy young woman whose parents are social climbers. You really can't get any passion out of his role in the Public Defender's office, nor out of his relationship. All this changes when he is offered the money of a lifetime ($15 million) to quietly settle as yet unknown claims of those who have suffered due to a risky drug. The offer comes from Max Pace - a shady character who plays "fireman" for a drug company and has access to all sorts of information unknown to the public. Shades of "The Firm"!
Given that Clay realizes very early on the problems associated with this much money, and sees a demonstration of how successful tort lawyers spend and spend and never achieve what they seek in life, you would think he would not fall into that trap. But Grisham pushes him in with his eyes closed - even having him buy a Caribbean villa for his expensive mistress (with whom he has nothing in common) and a jet plane.
Clay's friends from the OPD that join him in the new work do what we expect HIM to do -- take the early money and run. But he justs keeps his head in the sand and continues to burrow in, deeper and deeper.
Thankfully, as in most Grisham novels, this does not go on for very long, as the book is brief, and the ending is predictable.
I gave the book three stars, which is a star generous, because it held my interest, despite lack of plot and characterization. Grisham's ploy of using fiction to make a political statement about issues affecting the legal profession is always entertaining.
But if I were you, I'd wait for the paperback!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A fast paced, heart pounding read, but...
By Kevin C. Kropf
Not since The Firm had I torn through a Grisham book like I did with KOT and yet I finished feeling unsatisfied. There is no doubt that J.G. is the King of page turning action; however, one small plot twist at the end does not keep this book from being predictable.
Would I have been excited about King of Torts as I was about The Firm, Pelican Brief or A Time to Kill if I had read this first, I think I would have. We have been spoiled by the freshness of his earlier books and let's be honest, his latest works have been of the same quality yet are no longer fresh. It's tough for Grisham to surprise us anymore because of the number of books he has written and how he has trained his readers to truly expect the "unbelievable," the "unexpected," and the customary trip to the Caribbean-do you think he has to travel there for background information all the time, must be nice!
Is it just me or is Grisham just a little more didactic in this tome than in his previous works? I think he did an excellent job with the main character and you could see the greed and ethical conflict boiling below the surface (like father, like son) as J. Clay Carter II decided to plunge into the depths of mass tort law. Grisham does paint a vivid picture of the slide from "doing good" to "doing well" and character development has always been this author's strength.
In the end, this book is worth 4 or 5 hours of your time and even though you know where the book is going, you don't mind it when you know it is Grisham taking you there.
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