Category: Fiction, Novels & Story Books
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 week.
As he digs into the background
of his client, Clay gets wrapped up in 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.