The Litigators: by John Grisham.

Very good as usual from Grisham, although of late he goes for the more normal to be expected rather than the thrilling out of the way of the unequal fights won by the Davids against the Goliaths. Davids do win but Goliaths plod on trodding on general populace regardless.

In this one the thrilling moment - second, after the walkout by the little lawyer out of the huge firm - is when he is able to pin the mammoth drug company to their bad drugs, since they went for a punitive trial out of vindication for their name. But the jury goes reasonable rather than emotional and punitive and absolves the company of liability of death in question with a drug not proven bad, which the main trial is about.

Conclusion is towards a normal life and rise of a bright young lawyer too rather than one or a group hiding in witness protection or in offshore islands as was in his more thrilling earlier works.

All in all a very good one - as is usual from Grisham.

BPO Sutra - True Stories from India's BPO and Call Centres; compiled by Sudhindra Mokhasi.

Interesting, funny, informative, not always the good guy win but then again life isn't over either and they might yet, ...one awaits more of the stories. Customers from US who peremptorily demand that the connection from next door internet cafe that they have been using in their own home be restored promptly, perverts who are foiled, sexual predators that sometimes get their prey terminated with false allegations and are not yet shown for what they are, .... all sorts of little pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that shows the landscape of an old culture changing in many ways and the human nature that is eternal across all space and time.

This has immense potential, especially as television series much more than a mere film, but then again series of films with sequels following the first one are now not at all uncommon and this provides enough material for many, many sequels. All the more so since anyone can add one's own by going to the website provided and get it included in the next one - so one awaits the series of television and film portrayals of this for more fun.