Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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.