01500cam a2200325 i 4500 1145623341 TxAuBib 20240214120000.0 030429s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003269436 9780385508049 0385508042 (OCoLC)51033987 TxAuBib rda Grisham, John. The king of torts / John Grisham. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, [2003] ©2003. 376 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming 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. 850L Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR UG 6 17 68168. 20240214. Pharmaceutical industry Fiction. Washington (D.C.) Fiction.