The Rain Maker by John Grisham

John Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since A Time to Kill in a gripping tale of a young lawyer taking on the might of one of America's largest insurance companies.

Rudy Baylor's world collapses when the law firm he was due to join in a few week's time is taken over. Suddenly, just before his bar examination, he is without employment and up to his neck in debt.

Rudy now has to scrape the barrel to fend off his creditors. His whole future hinges on his only two prospective clients. One is an eccentric old lady who lays claim to a fortune of twenty million dollars and wants a new will drafted.

The other is a bad faith case against an insurance company who have denied a claim involving a boy dying of leukaemia. Donny Ray Black might have been saved if Great Benefit had paid out months ago, but now he has no hope. Both he and his mother want to bring Great Benefit to their knees, and they chose Rudy to do it, though he's not yet a member of the bar and has never argued a case in court. 

But the Black's case, as Rudy swiftly discovers, is only the tip of the iceberg: there are hundreds of similar claims popping up all over the US. Rudy finds himself facing the very legal firm whose takeover cost him his job, in a trial which threatens to blow the lid off one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in American history. He is one young man against a battery of million dollar lawyers, and his opponents will do anything to stop him.

The Rainmaker will reconfirm John Grisham as the master of legal storytelling.

Genres: Thriller - Mystery - Legal Thriller - Crime - Suspense - Mystery Thriller - Law - Drama
Condition: Very good
Published: 1995 by Century
Pages: 434
ISBN: 0712654593
Weight: 800g