The Litigators
John Grisham
The Litigators
Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIs. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. David gave up his lucrative career at Chicago's leading law firm for this: the chance to help the little guy stand up to the big corporations. But if Finley & Figg have right on their side, why do his new partners feel the need to carry guns in their briefcases? David thought he was used to cut-throat law from his days at Rogan Rothberg, but this is something else. He knows he was right to get out. He just may live to regret his new choice of firm...
3.5 out of 5 based on 5 reviews
|
Omniscore:
|
| Classification |
Fiction |
| Genre |
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery |
| Format |
Hardback |
| Pages |
400 |
| RRP |
£19.99 |
| Date of Publication |
October 2011 |
| ISBN |
978-1444729702 |
| Publisher |
Hodder & Stoughton |
| |
Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIs. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. David gave up his lucrative career at Chicago's leading law firm for this: the chance to help the little guy stand up to the big corporations. But if Finley & Figg have right on their side, why do his new partners feel the need to carry guns in their briefcases? David thought he was used to cut-throat law from his days at Rogan Rothberg, but this is something else. He knows he was right to get out. He just may live to regret his new choice of firm...
Reviews
The Daily Express
Robin Callender Smith
"The Litigators is up there with the best of Grisham’s 25 novels. As a fan, I know The Litigators is vintage Grisham: a page-turner that would lend itself perfectly to a film. He is one of a number of writers (the late Michael Crichton was another) whose style is direct and the result is a superbly-plotted legal thriller."
30/10/2011
Read Full Review
The Observer
Alison Flood
"... there is a thick vein of sly, black humour running through the heart of this novel, thanks in large part to the magnificently unsavoury, wonderfully charismatic Finley and Figg … The Litigators is all the better for it."
13/11/2011
Read Full Review
The Sunday Times
John Dugdale
"... a novel full of zest and zip ... Away from his usual southern turf, Grisham is turned by Chicago into a more Dickensian writer, soft-hearted at times but predominantly funny, and nowhere more so than in the climactic courtroom chapters; the author’s past form leads you to expect gripping drama, but instead he produces a brilliant comic set piece in which everything that could go wrong in a trial does go wrong."
23/10/2011
Read Full Review
The Washington Post
Louis Bayard
"… if you’re a Grisham apostate, now might be the time to get reacquainted. And this snappy, well-turned novel might be a good place to start ... Grisham swerves clear of the usual melodramatic devices. Corporations aren’t intrinsically venal; plaintiffs aren’t lambent with goodness. And best of all, no one is murdered for stumbling Too Close to the Truth."
21/10/2011
Read Full Review
The Evening Standard
Mark Sanderson
"Once again, Grisham puppy-walks the reader through the legal process, starting with jury selection and ending with pay-outs. The characterisation is off-the-peg, the so-called twists signalled a mile off, and yet The Litigators is entirely gripping."
01/12/2011
Read Full Review