John Grisham's five novels -- A Time To Kill The Firm The Pelican Brief The Client and The
Chamber -- have been number one best-sellers and have a combined total of 47 million copies in
print. Now inThe Rainmaker Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since A Time
To Kill and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed. Combining suspense
narrative momentum and humor as only John Grisham can this is another spellbinding read from
the most popular author of our time. Grisham's sixth spellbinding novel of legal intrigue and
corporate greed displays all of the intricate plotting fast-paced action humor and suspense
that have made him the most popular author of our time. In his first courtroom thriller since A
Time To Kill John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds
himself taking on one of the most powerful corrupt and ruthless companies in America -- and
exposing a complex multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In hs final semester of law school Rudy
Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens and it is there
that he meets his first "clients " Dot and Buddy Black. Their son Donny Ray is dying of
leukemia and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments.
While Rudy is at first skeptical he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly
mistreated by the huge company and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest
insurance frauds anyone's ever seen -- and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the
history of civil litigation. The problem is Rudy's flat broke has no job hasn't even passed
the bar and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys -- and powerful
industries -- in America.
