num_pages: 490
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 Washington D.C. every week.As he digs deeper into his client's background, 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 an enormous settlement that would totally change his life – a settlement 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: Barry and Harry, Roy Rogers (The King of Torts), Glenda (The King of Torts), Roger Redding, Art Mariani, The President of the United States (The King of Torts), Adelpha Pumphrey, Jason Shubert Myers IV, Dale Mooneyham, Three men from Reedsburg, Ted Worley, Nora Tackett, Jonah (The King of Torts), Carlos Hernandez and 2 others in New Orleans, Oscar Mulrooney, Tequila Watson, Talmadge X, Jarrett Carter, Mel Snelling, Reporter at the Wall Street Journal, Bandy and others, Miss Glick, Captain Floyd and Gunter, The judge in Flagstaff, Zack Battle, Julia (The King of Torts), Agents Spooner and Lohse, Bennett and Barb Van Horn, Rebecca Van Horn, Dr. Livian, Mark Munson, Helen Warshaw, Marcus Hanna, Bob Mitchell, Clay Carter, Max Pace, Paul Watson, Wicks (The King of Torts), Marshall (The King of Torts), Paulette Tulos, Patton French, Pumpkin (The King of Torts), Rex Crittle, Ridley (The King of Torts), Ian Ludkin, Valeria (The King of Torts), Jermaine Vance, Derek with the Financial Weekly, The Governor of Virginia, Rodney (The King of Torts), Captain Maltbee
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Law, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Crime, Legal Thriller, Suspense
ratings_count: 84279
places: Flagstaff, Arizona, Washington, D.C., Arizona, Biloxi, Mississippi, Caribbean Islands, Mississippi
publisher: Arrow Books