The Litigators by John Grisham, Hodder & Stoughton, $39.99
After several soul-destroying years in the corporate sweatshop of a massive legal firm, young lawyer David Zinc finally burns out.
He takes his wobbly legs and palpitating heart to a nearby bar and forgets his problems the old fashioned way.
Somehow he ends up in the ambulance chasing “boutique” firm of Finley & Figg, attorneys who struggle to stay on the right side of the law themselves. Should David have stayed in the metaphorical frying pan after all?
John Grisham brings a pleasant whimsy to his legal knowledge in The Litigators.
He pitches poor likeable David, who’s never been in a courtroom before, up against a legal goliath, with no one but melancholy Oscar Finley and incorrigible Wally Figg to help him.
Never challenging but never predictable, The Litigators is a great read, you’ll be cheering David Zinc through the mess in which he finds himself.