“THE KING OF TORTS” BY JOHN GRISHAM
Clay Carter is a bored lawyer with the Public Defender Office and dreams of a better career and a better life with a real firm. When a judge orders him to take on a case of a young man charged with random killing, he assumes it will be yet another of the many senseless murders on the streets of D.C. However, as he digs into the background, he discovers a conspiracy almost too hard to believe. And suddenly Clay carter finds himself in the middle of a huge case against one of the richest pharmaceutical companies in the world. A case that would give him an enormous settlement and make him (nearly overnight) not only wealthy but also the newest king of torts…
And so it begins… It catches your interest from the very first page however, it falters a little somewhere in the middle, which nearly made me want to put the book away. However, I stuck it out and it paid off since after a few not-so-interesting chapters, it picked up the pace and kept it going till the very end.
If you’re a reader accustomed to Grisham, you will most likely enjoy it but if you haven’t read any of his books yet (where have you been?!), I wouldn’t advise starting with this particular one. As much as I like Grisham’s novels, this one is of a lesser kind, I’d say. It lacks the fast-paced action of most of the previous ones and it contains too much of the legal mumbo-jumbo, which only slows down the narration. I am all for learning new things but enough is enough.
All in all, “The King of Torts” is a pretty interesting novel, which gives you a glimpse into the world of mass tort litigations and how the biggest lawyers get rich suing the large companies for any reason imaginable…