CD Audiobook
The litigators [sound recording] / John Grisham.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307943194 :
- Physical Description: 9 sound discs (ca. 11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, p2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Dennis Boutsikaris. |
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| Subject: | Anticholesteremic agents > Fiction. Audiobooks. Class actions (Civil procedure) > Fiction. Products liability > Drugs > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Legal stories. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks. - Baker & Taylor
The best-selling author ofThe Confession and The Appeal presents a latest legal thriller in which high-stakes courtroom tensions lead up to an explosive, unorthodox conclusion. Simultaneous. - Random House, Inc.
The partners at Finley & Figgâall two of themâoften refer to themselves as âa boutique law firm.â Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers whoâve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.
And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that heâs suddenly unemployed, any jobâeven one with Finley & Figgâlooks okay to him.
With their new associate on board, F&F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.
A little online research confirms Wallyâs suspicionsâa huge plaintiffsâ firm in Florida is putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they wonât even have to enter a courtroom!
It almost seems too good to be true.
And it is.
The Litigators is a tremendously entertaining romp, filled with the kind of courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense that have made John Grisham Americaâs favorite storyteller.
From the Hardcover edition.
