num_pages: 6
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 upon 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.
language: English
title: The King of Torts
titlecomplete: The King of Torts
characters: Captain Maltbee, Jonah (The King of Torts), Derek with the Financial Weekly, Marcus Hanna, Patton French, Dr. Livian, Roger Redding, Paul Watson, Bandy and others, Marshall (The King of Torts), Max Pace, Jason Shubert Myers IV, Agents Spooner and Lohse, Glenda (The King of Torts), The Governor of Virginia, Paulette Tulos, Clay Carter, Miss Glick, Reporter at the Wall Street Journal, Zack Battle, Ridley (The King of Torts), Adelpha Pumphrey, Captain Floyd and Gunter, Julia (The King of Torts), Roy Rogers (The King of Torts), Ian Ludkin, Ted Worley, Pumpkin (The King of Torts), Talmadge X, Carlos Hernandez and 2 others in New Orleans, Bennett and Barb Van Horn, The President of the United States (The King of Torts), Dale Mooneyham, Bob Mitchell, Rex Crittle, Wicks (The King of Torts), Rodney (The King of Torts), Mel Snelling, Three men from Reedsburg, Jermaine Vance, Valeria (The King of Torts), Nora Tackett, Barry and Harry, Oscar Mulrooney, The judge in Flagstaff, Jarrett Carter, Art Mariani, Tequila Watson, Rebecca Van Horn, Mark Munson, Helen Warshaw
genres: Suspense, Crime, Adult, Novels, Thriller, Law, Fiction, Legal Thriller, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 84303
places: Caribbean Islands, Flagstaff, Arizona, Biloxi, Mississippi, Arizona, Mississippi, Washington, D.C.
publisher: Random House Audio