Knopf
November 2011
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Featuring: Oscar Finley; Wally Figg; David Zinc
400 pages ISBN: 0385535139 EAN: 9780385535137 Hardcover Add to Wish List
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often
refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” Boutique, as
in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course,
none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation
always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers
who’ve been in the trenches much too long making way too
little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces
and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck
thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley
and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow
continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their
seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.
And then
change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in.
David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks
away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm,
goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the
doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and
comes to grips with the fact that he’s suddenly unemployed,
any job—even one with Finley & Figg—looks okay to him.
With their new associate on board, F&F is ready
to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the
partners rich without requiring them to actually practice
much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one
cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced
by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual
sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after
several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks.
Wally smells money.
A little online research confirms
Wally’s suspicions—a huge plaintiffs’ firm in Florida is
putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All
Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who
have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them
to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to
fame and fortune. With any luck, they won’t even have to
enter a courtroom!
It almost seems too good to be
true.
And it is. The Litigators is a
tremendously entertaining romp, filled with the kind of
courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense that have made
John Grisham America’s favorite storyteller.
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