Rating: ****
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Legal, Thriller, Fiction.Legal, Suspense & Thriller, Lang:en
Summary
PRAISE FOR *THE CONFESSION *
“Brilliant . . . Superb . . . the kind of
grab-a-reader-by-the-shoulders suspense story that demands to
be inhaled as quickly as possible.” *—Washington
Post *
“One of Grisham’s best efforts in many
seasons . . . a rousing return to his dexterous
good-guy-faces-corrupt-system storytelling.”
—People magazine
“Packed with tension, legal roadblocks, and
shocking revelations.” *—USA Today *
From the Hardcover edition.
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of
them—often refer to themselves as “a boutique law
firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous.
They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a
two-bit operation always in search of their big break,
ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches much too
long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are
quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an
actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together,
Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple
but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from
their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.
And then change comes their way. More accurately, it
stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out
attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy
downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself
literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David
sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that he’s
suddenly unemployed, any job—even one with Finley &
Figg—looks okay to him.
With their new associate on board, F&F is ready to
tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners
rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An
extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol
reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick
Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25
billion, has recently come under fire after several patients
taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.
A little online research confirms Wally’s
suspicions—a huge plaintiffs’ firm in Florida is
putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All
Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who
have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to
become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame
and fortune. With any luck, they won’t even have to enter
a courtroom!
It almost seems too good to be true.
And it is.
From the Hardcover edition.
Review
Product Description
The Litigators is a tremendously entertaining romp, filled
with the kind of courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense
that have made John Grisham America’s favorite
storyteller.