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Violence
Barely any
Mild violence — some corporate crime investigation
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Moderate — Clay's lifestyle and relationships as he gets rich
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The mass tort goldmine — how Clay finds it; how getting rich changes him; the collapse that's clearly coming
What this book is about
Clay Carter is a frustrated public defender in D.C. when he stumbles onto a drug company's concealment of a deadly medication side effect — an opportunity for a massive class-action lawsuit. He becomes spectacularly wealthy, then makes every mistake that spectacular wealth enables. The King of Torts is Grisham's most cautionary tale about greed.
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A mass tort attorney who gets rich and loses everything
Corporate crime — a deadly drug covered up
John Grisham standalone
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