01524cam a2200301 4500 546814414 TxAuBib 20101127120000.0 021030s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385508049 $27.95 0385508042 $27.95 TxAuBib Grisham, John. The King of Torts / John Grisham. New York : Doubleday, 2003. 376 p. ; 25 cm. Libr Journal October 01,2002. Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming 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. Adult. Adult. 20101127. Public defenders Fiction. Pharmaceutical industry Fiction. Torts Fiction. Washington (D.C) Fiction. TXWKC