388 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2006 by Delta Trade Paperbacks.
Clay Carter, a public defender, 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.
The protagonist is a kind of an AH and stays that way until the very end.
Not as satisfying as previous Grishams, but still a good passtime.
