David Zinc is a lawyer in the rarified American world of corporate law. His speciality is in company law, far from criminals, court rooms and the slightly seedy world of ambulance chasers and bail-bondsmen. He is paid lots of money, has a clever and beautiful wife and a lovely home. Then, one day, he implodes, walks out of his job, spends the entire day in a bar, drinking, and wakes up the next morning to find he's accepted a job with one of the ambulance chasing firms of 2 partners that his business colleagues despise.
Living from hand to mouth, taking cases for tiny fees, working in an attic box room at the firms' premises, David hasn't been as happy for a long time. Then a big case drops into their laps. All their resources, and more besides, goes into working a case that could earn them millions of dollars. While pursuing a large, pharmaceutical company, David learns the craft of court room law. He meets movers and shakers at the top of his chosen profession and grows in confidence.
But the big case has been built on a foundation of sand and, when things go horribly wrong and the firms 2 partners both melt down at the same time, David is left to pick up the pieces. Will his kindness to strangers provide the lifeline he, and the partners, need, or will David go his own way with the wind-fall that has dropped into his lap?
This book is, as you'd expect from Grisham, full of the fizz and excitement of courtroom law, fast paced action and twists and turns. His characters have real heart and the black humour he uses is punchy in the character's hands. Clever, knowledgable and snappy, this is a good read.
Recommended
"The Litigator" is published by Hodder ISBN 978 1 444 72972 6
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