Audio Book Description:
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter hasbeen there too long, and, like most ofhis colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. when hereluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumesit is just another of the many senselessmurders that hit D.C. every week. As he digsinto the background of his client, Clay stumbles on aconspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largestpharmaceutical companies in theworld, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change hislife - that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession`s newestking of torts....