@article{301572, author = {Grisham, John.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/301572}, title = {The king of torts /}, publisher = {Doubleday,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {301572}, pages = {376 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2003}, }