Excerpt from The Litigators #teasertuesday #grisham #books
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, read the rules at Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!
Happy New Year, all! I hope you have a fantastic 2015. I’ve decided to follow the principle “take a trip to the ER the first week of the year, and nothing worse will happen all year…” But I am on the mend.
I am currently reading John Grisham’s The Litigators. I am a big fan of Grisham; I love legal thrillers and his Skipping Christmas (the book that “Christmas with the Kranks” was based on). But I did not enjoy The Painted House. Some of my favorites are linked below.
Here is a teaser for you:
The elevator stopped at the eightieth floor, and two secretaries started to enter. They paused momentarily when confronted with David sitting in a corner, briefcase at his side. Carefully, they stepped over his legs and waited for the door to close. “Are you okay?” one asked. “Fine,” David answered. “And you?”
John Grisham, The Litigators
The partners at Finley & Figg often refer to themselves as a “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things. They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, more accurately, stumbles in. After leaving a fast-track career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg.
Now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make the partners rich—without requiring them to actually practice much law. A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, a pharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, alleging that Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wally smells money. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of Krayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true . . . and it is.
Some of my favorites:
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