TY - BOOK 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. 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. T1 - The king of torts / DA - c2003. CY - New York : AU - Grisham, John. ET - 1st ed. CN - PS3557.R5355 CN - PS3557.R5355 PB - Doubleday, PP - New York : PY - c2003. ID - 301572 KW - Pharmaceutical industry SN - 0385508042 TI - The king of torts / LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003269436.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003269436.html LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2003269436.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003269436.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003269436.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2003269436.html ER -