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The Litigators: A NOVEL
Author:
Grisham, John
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Class:
Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
Demand: Moderate
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LC: PS3557.R
Print Run: 1500000
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ISBN-13: 9780385535137
LCCN: BD11186067
Imprint: Doubleday
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Pub Date: 10/25/2011
Availability: Available
List: $35.00
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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385 p. ; 25 cm.
H 9.55",
W 6.45",
D 1.23",
1.4375 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Blockbuster List
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Fiction Core Collection, 16th ed. and Supplements
Fiction Core Collection, 17th ed.
Fiction Core Collection, 18th ed.
Library Journal Bestsellers
Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers: Adult Fiction
Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
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Awards:
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Suspense/Thriller
Legal Fiction
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BISAC Subjects: |
FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
FICTION / Legal
FICTION / Thrillers / Legal
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LC Subjects:
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Anticholesteremic agents, Fiction
Class actions (Civil procedure), Fiction
Legal stories
Products liability, Drugs, Fiction
Suspense fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Adventure fiction
Legal stories
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
6.5
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Points: 20.0
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 07/01/2011 |
| The only information that had been released at press time is that Grisham takes readers deeper into the labyrinth of the American justice system and there's a knock-out-conclusion, as always. LP 4/11/2011 384pp Author res: MS. Large first printing (A) 10-Digit ISBN: 0385535139; 13- Digit ISBN: 9780385535137 Previous: The Confession; The Associate, et al. BRODART CO., c2011. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Kirkus Reviews | 01/01/2012 |
| A tight (in a couple of senses), unexpectedly comic courtroom saga from veteran legal eagle Grisham (The Confession, 2011, etc.). After an unhappy showing with last year's Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer, Grisham is back in grown-up land. But grown-up is as grown-up does, and the characters who populate this latest are very, well, morally compromised--and on all sides of the law. One, David Zinc, cuts a formidable figure at the bar--and, once he's decided that, even though he's in his early 30s, he's done with practicing law at a huge corporate firm in downtown Chicago, he cuts a still more formidable figure drinking himself stupid at the nearest watering hole ("Do you serve breakfast?" "Yep, it's called a Bloody Mary"). A long bout of sucking down the sauce later, David has fallen far in the world, so far that he's now in cahoots with a practice that likes to call itself a "boutique firm," but that is in truth made up of a couple of dictionary-definition ambulance-chasers. Make that hearse-chasers: The brilliant legal minds at Finley & Figg like nothing better than to feed at the bottom, scouring the news and the obituaries for profit-inducing mayhem, for something, anything, to sue for. It's a hit-or-miss business, but with David on board, the partners' fortunes would seem to hold greater promise. Ah, but this is a Grisham novel, and the justice that's served up, as always, cuts both ways. There are a couple of holes in the plot (if David wants out of the law so badly, why does he so quickly fall right back into it?), but Grisham has a blast with all the righteous mischief in a tale with no real heroes and plenty of villains, with Big Pharma at the heart of the story. He writes with good humor, mostly, but with some calculating nastiness as well ("Oscar's perfect outcome would be breaking news of a pending settlement at about the same time his wife croaked on the drug"). Grisham's latest is a hoot�and, with its insider's view of jury selection and other dirty tricks, a very good reason to hope to steer clear of a courtroom. 384pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2012. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 04/11/2011 |
| Aside from making the brilliant observation that this book is a legal thriller, I can't tell you anything about Grisham's latest, as his plots are always kept under wraps until publication. But you always get his books sight unseen, right? 384pg., CD. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2011. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 10/24/2011 |
| Grisham's entertaining modern-day legal thriller offers a bitingly farcical look at lawyers at the bottom of the food chain. David Zinc, an associate at a Chicago mega-firm who's sick of the sweatshop he's been laboring in for five years, flees the office one morning and ends up spending all day in a bar. Soon after the bartender finally kicks him out, Zinc spots an ad on a city bus for a firm of ambulance-chasers, Finley & Figg, and resolves to join their hapless practice. Meanwhile, Wally Figg, one of Finley & Figg's two partners, thinks he's found a goldmine after learning that a client who died recently was taking an anti-cholesterol drug called Krayoxx. Zinc, who has zero litigation experience, aids Finley & Figg, who likewise lack litigation experience, in filing suit against the huge pharmaceutical company that produces Krayoxx. Grisham (The Confession) makes Zinc's personal transformation more convincing than his professional one. Some readers may feel the fairy tale ending clashes with the dark humor of the opening. (Oct.). 400pg. Web-Exclusive Review. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2011. |
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