- Fiction, Insurance crimes, Insurance crimes in fiction, Leukemia in fiction
In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam."
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 561
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Círculo de Lectores, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- und, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780785791652
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“MY DECISION to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.”
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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