The Author
John Grisham is one of the prominent writers in the contemporary Pulp Fiction arena. His forte is ‘legal thrillers’ and is the undisputed master in it. After majoring in Accounting and graduating in law, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade, before he took to writing.
Though his first book, A Time to Kill was not a great success in its first outing in 1987, his second book, The Firm became the best-selling novel of 1991. All of his subsequent novels have become best sellers and six of his novels have been turned into movies. He has churned out one book a year and The King of Torts is his latest book published in February 2003.
The Story
The theme of the book is about how greedy-mass-tort-lawyers “operate” in class action suits filed against big corporations. It exposes how the whole “scheme” of settlement works and who actually makes money out of the deal.
