description: The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts...From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The King of Torts
titlecomplete: The King of Torts
characters: Roy Rogers (The King of Torts), Rodney (The King of Torts), Helen Warshaw, Paul Watson, Bandy and others, Derek with the Financial Weekly, Ted Worley, Dr. Livian, Bennett and Barb Van Horn, Bob Mitchell, Rex Crittle, Captain Floyd and Gunter, Julia (The King of Torts), Art Mariani, Talmadge X, Mark Munson, Oscar Mulrooney, Jason Shubert Myers IV, The judge in Flagstaff, Valeria (The King of Torts), The President of the United States (The King of Torts), Jarrett Carter, Mel Snelling, Paulette Tulos, Jermaine Vance, Jonah (The King of Torts), Marshall (The King of Torts), Carlos Hernandez and 2 others in New Orleans, Captain Maltbee, Rebecca Van Horn, Ian Ludkin, Agents Spooner and Lohse, Patton French, Adelpha Pumphrey, Roger Redding, Nora Tackett, Barry and Harry, The Governor of Virginia, Zack Battle, Reporter at the Wall Street Journal, Max Pace, Marcus Hanna, Glenda (The King of Torts), Miss Glick, Ridley (The King of Torts), Wicks (The King of Torts), Three men from Reedsburg, Dale Mooneyham, Pumpkin (The King of Torts), Clay Carter, Tequila Watson
genres: Crime, Suspense, Law, Novels, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Legal Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 84285
places: Caribbean Islands, Flagstaff, Arizona, Arizona, Washington, D.C., Biloxi, Mississippi, Mississippi
publisher: Random House Audio