John Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since A Time To Kill in this riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed .
Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer : he has one case , and one case alone ,to save himself from mounting debts .It is a bad faith suit against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life ,but has instead refused to pay the claim until it is too late.
The settlement could be worth millions of dollars ,but there is one problem : Rudy has never argued a case in court before ,and he's up against the most expensive lawyers money can buy .