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The King of Torts

by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 · rating details · 37,565 ratings · 1,006 reviews

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 w...more

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Published December 16th 2003 by Dell (first published 2003)

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Mar 11, 2008 Shannon rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

booooooooooooring and tedious. Very disappointed with this book from Grisham. While I learned a little about Tort Law, I also could have learned same from an internet site. The story was long, repetitive and boring. Showed the greed of tort lawyers without allowing the reader to really get to know any of the characters. I’m not sure why I even bothered finishing this one. Better hit me with something better next time, Grisham, or I just might stop reading you.

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Jul 27, 2008 Beth rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Why do I keep doing this to myself?
Every Grisham I read seems to get worse and worse and this was the worst --- unless of course you like to read about privately owned jets, earning millions of dollars, winning class action suits that bring in billions (yes, I'm not exaggerating), fast cars, and slimy lawyers. The relationship aspect is at the beginning and end of the book. My suggestion is to read the first three chapters and then skip to the end (unless you enjoy laundry lists of the plaything...more

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Jun 02, 2008 Caralee rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As usual, this book it well written. Grisham tells the story of the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of the newest, hottest lawyer in the DC area. The problem that I found with this book is that I simply didn't care about any of the main characters in this book. The main character's greed and foolishness is shocking, and by the end of the book I found that like him, I was shrugging at 9 million dollars. But still, I found the characters uninteresting or distasteful. It was more out of a sense o...more

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Apr 02, 2009 Nolan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of the most captivating studies in human nature I’ve read in quite some time. I highly recommend it.

Clay Carter is a hard-working guy at the DC public defender’s office. He’s been there five years as this book opens, and he’s about to get a murder case in spite of his experience at ducking them. This turns out to be anything but a routine street drug murder in what is arguably the most simultaneously tragic and triumphant city in the nation.

Young Tequila Watson is no stranger to viol...more This is one of the most captivating studies in human nature I’ve read in quite some time. I highly recommend it.

Clay Carter is a hard-working guy at the DC public defender’s office. He’s been there five years as this book opens, and he’s about to get a murder case in spite of his experience at ducking them. This turns out to be anything but a routine street drug murder in what is arguably the most simultaneously tragic and triumphant city in the nation.

Young Tequila Watson is no stranger to violence, but he abhors committing violence on others. He was a cocaine addict until he was thrust into a last-chance rehabilitation facility. All that is public knowledge, and it’s knowledge that Clay Carter comes by easily enough. What Clay doesn’t know initially is that Tequila Watson was secretly medicated in the rehabilitation facility with a drug designed to destroy forever his addiction to cocaine. It worked. But it had one rather unfortunate side effect. It drove some of its users to mindlessly commit murder. They were quite literally driven to kill by forces unleashed by the drug. That’s the part Clay Carter learns later.

He is approached by a mysterious man who has information about the drug—information that, if used in a lawsuit against the drug’s manufacturer, could result in a huge settlement for the lawyer bright and alert enough to take the case.

When Clay Carter reaches that fateful crossroad in his life—the one in which he must decide between integrity and money—he opts for the money. The case against the drug company is settled quickly. The victims of the several people murdered by those who took the drug are, if not eager, then at least resigned to accept the settlement money Clay is able to get for them.

Clay Carter’s dizzying journey from anonymity and relative poverty to dazzling riches and being crowned the king of torts by his colleagues is an entirely believable one. Grisham in his always interesting style crafts that journey in such a way that even the most uninformed among us regarding the legal system can see the path poor Clay Carter takes.

The romantic subplot here merely serves to further show the contrasts between the decent public defender and the money-grubbing greedy shallow Clay Carter who buys fancy houses, fancy airplanes, and who salts away huge chunks of money offshore.

At one point in the book, Clay gets a forlorn letter from Tequila Watson, whose case he abruptly abandoned to take on his new life of wealth and power—a letter Clay doesn’t even bother to answer.

But as Clay’s former attorney father warns him, the greed catches up to him. Just as Clay’s ascent into the rarified air of wealth and accolades is dizzying and dazzling, so his descent into financial ruin is equally breathtaking. This is also a damning portrait of the legal system and its quest for power and money sometimes at the expense of ordinary folk who know little or nothing about how it works.

So well is Clay Carter’s character developed that even in his shallowest and worst, some part of your heart remains with him; some part of you hopes for his redemption, even though such redemption seems remotely possible at best throughout much of the book.

There is a gripping immediacy to this book that you usually find in high-drama suspense stories. There’s really nothing suspenseful about the book, but you’ll be riveted by its fast-moving plot nonetheless. It’s a plot I found highly believable and remarkably devoid of the need for tangential explanations of the legal system to the uninformed such as I am. It’s so well written that you won’t get lost in any legal minutia; and yet, it is a tale of such intricacy that you will come away thoroughly impressed at this author’s ability to weave its components together into a truly fascinating and thoughtful study in character, in human nature, in the concept of a fall and that fall’s accompanying need for redemption.

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Mar 01, 2009 Trevor Poe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone who likes legal thrillers and books about lawyers and lawsuits

Recommended to Trevor by: My mother

I’ve never knew much about law cases, but John Grisham made me feel as if I was a lawyer in Washington, D.C. myself. Clay Carter, a lawyer for the firm OPD, is a man struggling to make money at the law firm he works at. “The beginning salary for an OPD lawyer was 36,000 dollars. The most senior lawyer, a frazzled of man of forty-three, earned 57,600 dollars and has been threatening to quit for nineteen years.” When given an unbelievable opportunity, the story tells about how he handles himself w...more I’ve never knew much about law cases, but John Grisham made me feel as if I was a lawyer in Washington, D.C. myself. Clay Carter, a lawyer for the firm OPD, is a man struggling to make money at the law firm he works at. “The beginning salary for an OPD lawyer was 36,000 dollars. The most senior lawyer, a frazzled of man of forty-three, earned 57,600 dollars and has been threatening to quit for nineteen years.” When given an unbelievable opportunity, the story tells about how he handles himself while being a mass tort lawyer.

When Clay is working at OPD and is struggling to get money, his rich girlfriend, Rebecca Vanhorn, decides that she needs somebody with more money. Rebecca grew up with rich parents who always gave her what she wanted. When her parents put inside her head that she deserves better than Clay, she leaves him.

The next day, a man named Max Pace calls Clay with a great opportunity. Max Pace is a man with many names. Max is the only name mentioned in the book. He calls Clay about the murder case he is handling and Clay’s client, Tequila Watson.

Tequila is a nineteen-year-old boy who is in jail for murder. He is a kid that was on drugs, but had no other problems. In fact, the rehabilitation center director says, “But the kid was pretty tame, no history of violence.”

Max tells Clay that the prescription drug that Tequila was taking, Tarvan, has a defect. It makes one percent of the people who take it want to kill somebody. Max says that his client, the drug company that manufactured Tarvan, has destroyed all records and wants to settle quickly. Max hires Clay to find all the victims’ families, and make them his clients. Then Max’s clients would settle for any amount of money.

Clay becomes rich over the Tarvan case and makes his own law firm. Max becomes his partner. Max has stolen records on a pill named Dyloft. Dyloft is a prescription drug used for arthritis, but it makes tumors in the bladder. Clay files for suit against the manufacturer of the pill, Ackerman Labs, immediately and has thousands of clients calling him.

One theme of the book would be that no matter how rich you are, you should not let money go to your head. Clay makes millions of dollars and is always telling himself to not let the money go to his head. He ends up believing you have to spend money to make money.

I liked this book because it is so much like real life. He makes commercials that are just like some of the ones we see on television at night. It is also very interesting about how much the pharmaceutical companies are willing to pay to keep a case from going to court, and how much the lawyers keep for themselves. This book shows greed and how it gets the best of people.

One thing I did not like about this book was that at times, it would get boring. It was boring because of all the details that had to be given about the cases and all the stuff the lawyers had to do to prepare for them. Once they filed for suit is when the book started getting interesting again.

Page Count: 470

Genre: Realistic Fiction

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Mar 26, 2008 Alan rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I bought this book in the Portland, OR airport and finished it by the time I reached Orlando with a stopover somewhere. It was this or Sky Mall Magazine. What attracted me to the book over the others in the airport was that I'd requested The Innocent Man from my library after having read a good review of that book, but was on a waiting list and didn't have it to read on the trip. I guess I should have bought the latest Danielle Steele or Stephen King from the airport shop instead.

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Apr 01, 2013 Victor Gibson rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a strange book. I would have thought that John Grisham could have written it in his sleep, and I was really surprised that it had been a best seller. It just rambles on in what is a quite uninteresting way, setting up a couple of mysteries which are not actually resolved in the end. None of the characters are of any interest whatsoever, and as for the hero - if that's what he is - who cares.

I could hardly believe the comments on the cover "A rollercoaster ride" The Times. The full commen...more

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Jul 01, 2012 Dale rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Grisham continues with a trend previously established

Read by Michael Beck
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Grisham's The King of Torts continues the trend that he started in other books such as The Chamber and The Runaway Jury . The book isn't really about the characters or the plot. Instead, it's a easy to swallow education into how the legal system actually works.

In The Chamber the reader sees how death penalty cases work in detail. In The Runaway Jury the readers sees how a civil jury trial works in d...more

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Oct 14, 2011 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: legal-thriller, adult-fiction

Several years ago, I read everything John Grisham wrote. I guess, though, burnout set in, and after I read The Brethren, I was done with Grisham. I liked The Brethen enough. I guess. I just can't say that I remember it very well. In any case, I was tired of legal thrillers. Other than An Innocent Man, which doesn't really count because it is a true story, after all, I haven't read a Grisham novel for well over ten years.

And this was decent. But I'm thinking of stories like The Partner, The Firm...more Several years ago, I read everything John Grisham wrote. I guess, though, burnout set in, and after I read The Brethren, I was done with Grisham. I liked The Brethen enough. I guess. I just can't say that I remember it very well. In any case, I was tired of legal thrillers. Other than An Innocent Man, which doesn't really count because it is a true story, after all, I haven't read a Grisham novel for well over ten years.

And this was decent. But I'm thinking of stories like The Partner, The Firm, and The Pelican Brief. I might be suffering from memory loss - but the way I remember those stories is different than the way I think The King of Torts reads. I remember those first stories being intense and exciting. I remember that I couldn't stop reading because they were filled with clever plot twists.

The King of Torts isn't a thriller like those first Grisham novels. J. Clay Carter II is a lowly public defender in Washington, D.C. But his luck is about to change. When Carter decides to take a generous but shady offer and start up his own shop, he finds himself in the midst of very large mass tort litigation cases, and he is probably in over his head. He's making millions, hiring paralegals and attorneys left and right and buying expensive boats, jets, homes. In fact, he's spending it with reckless abandon while his personal life is spinning wildly out of control. But Mr. Carter takes comfort as he becomes the newly crowned "King of Torts."

Maybe this is why I didn't love it. It isn't the thriller I was expecting. But even more, I really detested torts in law school. Not because the reading wasn't interesting or even because they class discussions weren't engaging - they were. How can you not be interested in cases that include a dolt who saws off his fingers after ignoring clear and precise safety warnings placed all over his new saw and who then goes and sues the manufacturer anyway? It's a train wreck, and you can't turn away from it. But the sleaziness of such nonsense...I mean what lawyer takes a case like that...it just never sat right with me. However, these tort lawyers, they are something else; they are the epitome of every shark lawyer joke ever made. Very stock...I really don't believe every tort attorney is this low. And several do really good work for people who deserve compensation. Mr. Carter and his new pals are not doing such work.

And as Mr. Carter slips further into the morass of mass tort litigation, he finds his moorings slipping right along with is personal life. I wanted to think more of Carter, but since I didn't really see what kind of guy he was before - he actually seemed like kind of a jerk from the beginning - I wasn't surprised to watch his fall. I think if Grisham wanted me to feel any sympathy for him, Carter needed to be more sympathetic from the start. Classic lack of character development.

However, the story was engaging enough and the twist at the end was interesting, if a bit predictable, kind of. And I did appreciate the angle it took on mass tort litigation. Is it abusive even if a drug company manufactures a dangerous drug? Shouldn't lawyers know who they represent rather than file mass cases for thousands of individuals they have never met face to face? I'd never given it much thought, but I have now, and it doesn't sit quite right with me.

It isn't my favorite Grisham, but it was good. And I'm now reading The Appeal, so...I guess I'm sort of on a Grisham kick. (less)

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Jul 05, 2011 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Once again, I can't warm up to the main character, a young lawyer who is a public defender and after 5 years is given the shady opportunity to set up his own law office and settle cases quietly for an unknown drug firm. After this, he settles cases for over $100 million but soon runs through this amount with his Gulfstream jet, home in Georgetown, advertising for new clients, boat for his father, house in the islands (where his Georgian (as in Russia) model sets up housekeeping and redecorating....more

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May 06, 2011 Kathy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action, mystery

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May 02, 2011 June Ahern rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Have been a fan of John Grisham's legal books for a long time, - the beginning of his writing career - and throughly enjoyed each book. That includes his non-legal books, but "The King of Torts", was not an overly interesting or fun book for me. The numbers and legal jargon, the long meetings, and the shallow relationships were tedious. I found myself skipping pages of the overly descriptive business - greedy and ugly - gatherings of lawyers plotting to swindle and ruin as many as they could for...more

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Feb 10, 2011 Starliam rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Con questo romanzo John Grisham ci presenta una realtà legale americana sconosciuta ai più: gli avvocati esperti in cause per danni alla collettività. Si occupano di trovare e reclutare persone che possono aver ricevuto danni usando farmaci, vernici o altri prodotti: poi viene intentata una causa collettiva alla ditta produttrice o alla casa farmaceutica. Poichè nessuna azienda vuole finire in un processo che può concludersi con un verdetto di colpevolezza, le varie aziende si accordano per un r...more

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Nov 04, 2010 Mweene rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book left no impression on me whatsoever. What kind of a name is 'Clay' for a main character? This guy simply had no substance to him and he certainly did not deserve to be the hero in this book. Not that he was ever in danger of some other character stealing the lime light from him. Not a single person in this book was worth the trouble, not one.
Sure it shows us just how greedy lawyers can be but come on now, surely we don't have to read such a boring book to find this out. My die hard pr...more

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Aug 29, 2010 Kavyen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jul 23, 2010 Jerry rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A really lousy book: rags to riches to rags, the end!

We've read every Grisham offering, including his two non-legal- thrillers, and find most of his novels to be good or great, a couple just so-so. For the first time, we'd rate this one at the bottom of the barrel. It has virtually no plot: a down-trodden public defender falls for a get-rich-quick scheme involving settling a few cases with some murder victims (due to bad drugs), for which our hero, Clay Carter earns like $15 million. Getting th...more

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Mar 03, 2010 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I discovered John Grisham's books when I realized that I did not have a book on hand to read ... I didn't have time to go to the library and found a pile of Grisham books in my son's bedroom that had been sent to him while he was deployed overseas in Iraq. I picked up this one and dove in and was hooked ! This story begins with a young lawyer who is stuck in a dead end job with the Office of the Public Defender representing losers in court and scratching out a living. He is somehow picked out b...more

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Mar 08, 2008 Vicki rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I almost always enjoy a good John Grisham book and love to read them on an airplane as they make the time go by so fast. This was one of my favorites as it gives an inside look at the huge class-action lawsuits and how they can affect the lives of those involved, especially in the legal field. There is so much money to be made, it leads to unscrupulous behavior and should be a warning to us all. It was informative as well as entertaining and that rates five stars from me.

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Jun 27, 2012 Brian Ashe rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed this quite a bit. There's a character in this book who appears in another book where he owns a boat named "King of Torts" so for the longest time I thought I had already read this. I was happy to discover I hadn't because it's (almost) always fun to read a new John Grisham book. This one wasn't quite as "fun" as some of his other books but it was still a very good read. (By that I mean, he generally writes three kinds of law-based books: fun, like "The Firm" and "The Broker"; serious,...more

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Sep 30, 2010 Benjamin Thomas rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller-legal

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "The King of Torts" is the 10th book I've read by John Grisham. I suppose that makes him one of "my" authors although he has his share of let downs. Ever since I read "The Firm" years ago, I've looked for that magic once more but so far they've always seemed to fall a tad short.

I'm still not exactly what to make of this one. It is one of the better ones of Mr. Grisham's works that I've read, despite the nit picking that I'm about to do. It's a page turner for sure and I kept reading way past my...more "The King of Torts" is the 10th book I've read by John Grisham. I suppose that makes him one of "my" authors although he has his share of let downs. Ever since I read "The Firm" years ago, I've looked for that magic once more but so far they've always seemed to fall a tad short.

I'm still not exactly what to make of this one. It is one of the better ones of Mr. Grisham's works that I've read, despite the nit picking that I'm about to do. It's a page turner for sure and I kept reading way past my bed time. That has to be a good sign right? Mr. Grisham does have a way of writing page turners; his language is for the common man, his chapters are fairly short so it's easy to think, "just one more chapter." * * SPOILER ALERT ** Sorry about this spoiler but its difficult to discuss this work without it. This novel could easily be classified as a tragedy in that we watch young attorney Clay Carter rise from a humble life in the Public Defender’s Office in Washington DC to become the newest "King of Torts", suing huge drug companies and others on behalf of wronged victims...only to have his empire crash and burn around him at the end. * * END SPOILER * *

As I said, it's a page turner but I do have some issues with the novel. The characters (particularly the protagonist) didn't always respond and behave the way I expected based on the first third of the book. In other words, I had come to know him pretty well through the various scenes and see how he reacts to events. But occasionally he does things completely out of character, yanking me right out of the narrative. Coupled with that, a couple of times I felt like the author was not treating me, the reader, with respect. I'm not a lawyer but in the course of the novel, we get a good dose of what tort litigation is all about and how it works, at least for a layman's perspective. But when a technique served well in the first part of the book, and the protagonist was well satisfied with the results, he tried it again and for no apparent reason it didn't fly the next time. It's as if the author ignored the investment the readers would make with the characters in order to make sure the plot worked as he wanted. As an example, there is one crucial court drama happening in the background during the final third of the book. * * SPOILER ALERT ** It's crucial to the plot and to what happens to our protagonist. We, the reader, along with the protagonist are led down the path of just how great it's going for our side, how amazingly the lawyer is skewering the opponent’s expert witnesses, how the jury is eating it up, and when the jury comes back with the verdict...we lose. That's it. No explanation. I know you can just never really tell with a jury but it seemed contrived by the author to disrespect the reader in order to get the ending he wanted.

Yes, I am being hard on Mr. Grisham. But I'm sure his bestselling book sales will withstand my criticism just fine. And I expect a lot from him. The book was still fun to read and I'll keep reading him (I have at least 3 more on my shelves). But I'm still hoping for that great one.
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May 19, 2012 Jake rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: pulp

I don't think I'll ever read Grisham again, his stories are just too stupid. The protagonist inexplicably acted like an ass despite professing to being a moral person, acted wildly irrationally, made unbelievable errors in judgement concerning the wasting of money and lack of caution. His character was so poorly developed that I knew mid way through that I didn't give a shit what happened to him, because his character was both unbelievable and ultimately not likeable. Most problematic though wer...more

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May 13, 2008 Brandi Doctoroff rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Brandi by: Mama

Seriously...did Grishham fall asleep at the end? No spoilers, but it seems like for the last few chapters he was in a big rush to finish the book and just made everything end real abruptly. Especially considering that the rest of the book was quite long and drawn out....

This was the first book by Grisham that I've read thus far, and I'm not sure that I am jumping in to read more... Maybe I should have started with a more popular...better...book.

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Apr 19, 2013 Sharon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2013

Picture the office of the public defender, litigators stretched to the limit and beyond, exposed to circumstances they have no ability to deal with, day in and day out, underpaid, over worked and hopeless. This is Clay Carter's life. A new assignment, a young man charged with a random shooting. This client is an addict, though in successful recover with no history of any violence, in fact, just the opposite. Clay starts the discovery and the facts are not adding up as he probes into the case. En...more

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Jun 23, 2011 Mohamed rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This story depicts the life of Clay Carter, a young public defense lawyer who worked in Washington DC. For the past five years of his career, he worked himself to death in his dead end job. Most of his clients were apparently guilty and his cases usually settled out of court before trial. He had just been appointed to defend another murder suspect in an apparently random shooting.

One day as he was walking to his office, he was approached by a man who called himself Max Pace. Max described his jo...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Hobby rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: legal-thriller, owned-a-copy, modern-drama

Books “GANTI RUGI”
Judul Asli : THE KING OF TORTS
By John Grisham
Copyright © 2003 by Belfry Holdings, Inc.
Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Alih Bahasa : Hidayat Saleh
Cover by Eduard Iwan Mangopang
Cetakan II : Oktober 2004 ; 544 hlm
Verdict : 3

Yang Terhormat Clay Carter II adalah pengacara muda yang terbelit dalam rutinitas tiada henti di Kantor Pembela Umum (OPD) District Columbia, Washington D.C, terkenal dengan angka kejahatannya yang tinggi. Dan suatu hari, ia berada pada posisi yang tak terela...more
Books “GANTI RUGI”
Judul Asli : THE KING OF TORTS
By John Grisham
Copyright © 2003 by Belfry Holdings, Inc.
Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Alih Bahasa : Hidayat Saleh
Cover by Eduard Iwan Mangopang
Cetakan II : Oktober 2004 ; 544 hlm
Verdict : 3

Yang Terhormat Clay Carter II adalah pengacara muda yang terbelit dalam rutinitas tiada henti di Kantor Pembela Umum (OPD) District Columbia, Washington D.C, terkenal dengan angka kejahatannya yang tinggi. Dan suatu hari, ia berada pada posisi yang tak terelakkan, harus menerima tugas untuk membela terdakwa bernama Tequila Watson – pemuda kulit hitam berusia 20 tahun yang telah membunuh Ramón ‘Pumpkin’ Pumphrey – pemuda kulit hitam lainny dengan tembakan di kepala. Saksi mata yang meyakinkan, serta perilaku Tequila yang aneh, sama sekali tidak mau berbicara selama dalam tahanan sembari menunggu persidangan. Clay yang hendak melimpahkan kasus pro-bono ini, harus menghadapai bahwa waktuny akan habis untuk membela pemuda yang jelas bersalah. Anehnya saat mereka bertemu, Tequila mengakui ia memang menembak hanya tidak mengetahui alasannya. Ia baru saja keluar dari pusat rehabilitasi dengan kondisi sehat dan ‘sadar’, catatan kejahatannya juga menunjukkan bahwa ia tidak suka kekerasan bahka cenderung menghindari konfrontasi.

Dari catatan yang diperoleh, Clay merasa adanya hal-hal yang disembunyikan sehubungan dengan kondisi kesehatan Tequila. Namun sebelum ia memperoleh data lengkap untuk mengetahui kebenaran kasus ini, ia mendapat ‘undangan’ untuk menemui seseorang yang akan merubah hidupnya 180 derajat. Pria itu bernama Max Pace, nama samaran seseorang yang menyamar sebagai head-hunter. Ia memiliki tugas sebagai pemadam kebakaran atau semacam negosiator mewakili perusahaan besar yang hendak membungkam permasalahan yang akan terjadi melalui jalur kompromi. Perusahaan yang ia wakili bergerak di bidang farmasi dan telah mengeluarkan obat yang dapat membantu pemulihan pecandu narkoba untuk pulih secara cepat. Sebagaimana prosedur resmi untuk memperoleh ijin FDA maka obat tersebut harus terlebih dahulu lolos uji-coba, dan mereka melakukan praktek illegal dengan melakukannya pada manusia di wilayah Asia serta Mexico.

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Jan 08, 2013 Ryan Bushell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jan 03, 2011 Sharon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of the few big-name authors whose work I still find both consistent and enjoyable is John Grisham. In "The King of Torts," he brings us inside the world of mass litigation (you know, the type provoked by those "If you or a loved one has contracted Chinese jungle rot, please call this 1-800 number" ads on television).

Public defender Clay Carter is looking at yet another murder case file when he is visited by Max Pace. Pace gives him an "inside track" on a drug that may be involved in the murd...more

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Aug 13, 2011 Patrice Sartor rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Patrice by: Jeanne Sartor

Shelves: lawyery, ethical-dilemma

John Grisham writes easy-to-read books about male lawyers, their female mates and their increasing amount of drama concerning their job.

Stephen King writes easy-to-read books about creepy, weird and/or supernatural occurrences and the people (and their mates) that are affected by them, often set in Maine.

As I was reading this, I realized how similar the two writing styles of King and Grisham felt to me. Both write in a familiar way across many of their books, ensuring that dedicated fans will co...more

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Feb 26, 2009 Miriam rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another audiobook for another long drive. At least this one came from a thrift store. This book is about class action law-suits against the pharmaceutical industry. There is a plot (sort of) but most of this book is spent explaining class-action lawsuits along with their benefits and consequences (YAwn). Occasionally there are descriptions of scantily clad paralegal hookers and a bisexual underwear model which I think are supposed to spice things up a bit, but that didn't do anything for me. I a...more

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Sep 04, 2010 Philip Oyok rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

John Grisham writes about Law thrillers, but I tend to believe he actually has much distaste for the genre. I've read through a couple of his books and have notice several similarities amongst his main characters: in the beginning, they tend to be young, idealistic folks wanting to practice their love for the Law as much as any would-be civil servant would. Halfway along the story, they become permanently disillusioned and frustrated by the dark practices they've been involved in, and by the tim...more

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About John Grisham

"Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.

Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of...more "Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.

Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990.

One day at the DeSoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June 1988.

That might have put an end to Grisham's hobby. However, he had already begun his next book, and it would quickly turn that hobby into a new full-time career—and spark one of publishing's greatest success stories. The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. When he sold the film rights to The Firm to Paramount Pictures for $600,000, Grisham suddenly became a hot property among publishers, and book rights were bought by Doubleday. Spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, The Firm became the bestselling novel of 1991.

The successes of The Pelican Brief, which hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Client, which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham's reputation as the master of the legal thriller. Grisham's success even renewed interest in A Time to Kill, which was republished in hardcover by Doubleday and then in paperback by Dell. This time around, it was a bestseller.

Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, and The Broker) and all of them have become international bestsellers. There are currently over 225 million John Grisham books in print worldwide, which have been translated into 29 languages. Nine of his novels have been turned into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, A Painted House, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas), as was an original screenplay, The Gingerbread Man. The Innocent Man (October 2006) marks his first foray into non-fiction.

Grisham lives with his wife Renee and their two children Ty and Shea. The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, VA.

Grisham took time off from writing for several months in 1996 to return, after a five-year hiatus, to the courtroom. He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full-time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars. Preparing his case with the same passion and dedication as his books' protagonists, Grisham successfully argued his clients' case, earning them a jur(less)

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