The King of Torts
| Title: | The King of Torts |
| Author: | John Grisham
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| Year First Published: | 2005 |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Synopsis: | 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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| John Grisham's characters and legal plots are usually deep and relatable. The characters are mediocre and the plot is terrible. The main character is a public defender assigned to the case of a young murderer. Fifty pages in, he wins the case and moves on to something else. By the end of the book you don't even remember what the original case involved. If you like John Grisham, stick to The Client or The Chamber. |
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| Focus | Legal/Crime | Setting | North America |
| Main Character | Academic/Professional | Setting | Earth Based |
| Main Character | Adult | Time Period | Contemporary |
| Number of pages | 300-400 | Time Period | Past |
| Readability | Moderate | Type | Suspense |
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