Grisham sticks to his lawyer good guy vs. bad guy, as usual, in this book which is about Rudy Baylor, a final year law student, who finds himself unwittingly jobless after graduation, his first job terminated at the very last moment by a big company that is downsizing.
At this point in time, there is an absolute glut of new lawyers on the street… and rudy is broke, after spending years of putting himself through law school, through waiting and bartending and loans.
Desperate, circumstances force him to work for his bartenders mafia like partner, as no other company will take him. He is resigned to literally, ‘ambulance chasing’, and going after clients, in the hope of a few dollars here and there. Yet, he sticks to two cases he has been attached to since the days of law school when they were assigned to do community projects for free.
One involves a desperately ill, terminal young man with leukaemia, denied the proper bone marrow transplant by his shoddy insurance company, on various grounds, who eventually succumbs to his disease. Rudy fights for his injustice, fighting a famous big lawyer firm in the case, that his clients life could have been saved, but was not, by the insurance company. This minute by minute account of the research, court proceedings and verdict, is totally gripping.
A side story is rudy’s love life. A typical john grisham book, enjoyable every single moment. My second time reading it actually.
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Keep up the good work.
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