Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2417 in Books
• Brand: BagNow
• Published on: 1998-01-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

Synopsis
Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court before, and he's up against the most expensive lawyers that money can buy.

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John Grisham's bestselling backlist repackaged with fantastic new covers

From the Back Cover
Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late.

The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court before, and he's up against the most expensive lawyers that money can buy.

`The best thriller writer alive'Ken Follett, Evening Standard

`The suspense does not let up for a minute' Daily Telegraph

`He keeps us turning the pages until well after bedtime… as exciting as a car chase with a load of dynamite thrown in' Daily Mail

`The book stays in the hands as if super-glued… compelling' Sunday Express

Customer Reviews

Gripping Stuff...
From the moment I started reading 'The Rainmaker' I couldn't wait to turn each page. John Grisham once again demonstrates his expertise and depth of knowledge. He is in my mind the master of the genre. While writing this review I would like to recommend 'The Constantine Legacy' by Andrew Towning.

Excellent, but how can you ignore ...
... Bruiser, Prince, Deck - and most of all Miss Birdie?! We know where Rudy will end up, but what happens to this priceless cast? They are the foundations on which the story is built. Forget insurance companies, an old lady can teach them something about engineering predictable responses!
Mind you, the beginning is a wonderful literary helter-skelter of how your career and life prospects can progress. From which "peak" the story unfolds.
However, the unanswered questions are ... did the boys get their money, and what did Deck do?! Will we ever know?

the funniest novel Grisham has ever written
I so much enjoyed reading this book. The writing is extraordinary, John Grisham shows us again that he's an expert. When you read the book, you'll think you're near the main character, that you're sitting right beside him. The moral message of the book jumps right into your face and you also suffer and laugh with the main characters.

In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America - and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam.

In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients", Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments, a bone marrow transplant.

While Rudy is at first sceptical, he soon realises that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen - and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation.

The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, he has no job, hasn't even passes the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys - and powerful industries - in America.

I would give this book five stars, because it's the funniest novel Grisham has ever written. There's so much laughter, but - and I think that's life - there are also parts where tears will come running down your face. It's such a sensitive side of the main character Grisham shows, and that also tells us that Grisham's writings are varied and not always the same lawyer stories we expect.

Please, read the book, it's worth every minute you spend with it.

(Written by Stopfel !!!!!!!!!!! )