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The Rainmaker
John Grisham

The Rainmaker

Dell (Jan 02, 1996)
9780440221654
| Mass Market Paperback
598 pages | 108 x 172 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3557.R5355 .R35 1996

Genre

  • Legal Thriller
  • Suspense

Subject

  • Fiction
  • Insurance Crimes
  • Legal Stories
  • Legal Stories, American
  • Memphis (Tenn.)

Plot

It's summer in Memphis.  The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels.  Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life.  Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer...except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it. By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he's in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings.  A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous million-dollar war of nerves, skill and outright violence--a fight that could cost one young lawyer his life, or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land....