The King of Torts

Clay Carter, a smart and intelligent young lawyer, who worked in the Office of the Public Offender for too long, and like his colleagues, dreamt of a better job in a real law firm. When he unwilling took up a case in which a young black man had been alleged to have killed a man in random, he thought it was just another ordinary case like always.

The shocking truth of the case from Max Pace startled him. One of the greatest pharmaceutical companies was involved in the so-called ordinary case. Pace offered him a fabulous deal to make enormous settlements for the victims’ families, with a large piece of the cake for him. Clay accepted it, not knowing it would change his life forever. It was a deal from the Devil, in exchange of money and fame, he would have to sell his soul.

One of the reasons I believe Clay accepted the deal was his girlfriend, Rebecca, who had abandoned him due to pressure from her parents. He wanted to prove that he did not need to depend of Rebecca’s father, a snob who tried to get him a job with better pay and wanted to control his life.

Clay began to earn a great deal of money and was able to afford a luxurious life he never dreamt of. He had set up his own law firm and recruited some of his colleagues who were given generously the profit Clay himself had made. These colleagues then left the firm after pocketing the sum of money.

The next case of the firm triggered the uprising reputation of Clay, who was known as the King of Torts. Clay was getting used to the number of cases he got for settlements and greed got to him as he swallowed one-third of the amount of settlement his clients had got.

With Rebecca married to another boring man, Clay got a model named Ridley to pose as his girlfriend at Rebecca’s wedding reception who eventually became his woman and started to spend money lavishly.

When Clay got some insider trading information from Pace again, he took up cases connecting to a new defective drug which proved to be too much for him to handle.

What lies ahead for Clay? Find out by reading one of the best novels by John Grisham and look carefully at the similarities of Clay’s life and yours.