The Litigators - by John Grisham (Paperback)

About the Book

Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2011.

Book Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A tremendously entertaining legal thriller, filled with the kind of courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense that have won John Grisham acclaim as "an absolute master" (The Washington Post).

After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-described "boutique law firm" that is anything but.

Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are in fact just two ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. But now, with their new associate on board, the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make the partners rich--without requiring them to actually practice much law.

A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, a pharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, alleging that Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wally smells money. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of Krayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true . . . and it is.

Review Quotes

Praise for the novels of John Grisham

"John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days."--The New York Times Book Review

"In all of Grisham's best books . . . the reader gets good company, a vigorous runaround and . . . a bit of a legal education."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Grisham's books are smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex, interesting people."--The Washington Post

"The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment."--Los Angeles Times

"John Grisham owns the legal thriller." --The Denver Post

About the Author

John Grisham is the author of numerous #1 bestsellers, including The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Innocent Man, The Whistler, The Boys from Biloxi, and many more. His books have been translated into nearly fifty languages. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. He lives on a farm in central Virginia.