TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Grisham, John. CN - PS3557.R5355 CN - PS3557.R5355 CY - New York : DA - 2004, c2003. ET - Dell domastic mass market ed. ID - 276457 KW - Pharmaceutical industry N2 - 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. PB - Random House, PP - New York : PY - 2004, c2003. SN - 0440241537 T1 - The king of torts / TI - The king of torts / ER -