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Post by Sandy on Apr 15, 2024 17:36:17 GMT
In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients," Dot and Buddy Black.
Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen -- and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation.
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Post by Pete on Apr 15, 2024 18:19:32 GMT
Sandy, I think you know that I don't normally share your liking of courtroom dramas.
But, there is an exception. Grisham's story: A Time To Kill. That certainly was a good read. About a black man who kills two white men who rape his 10-year-old daughter.
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Post by Sandy on Apr 15, 2024 18:45:46 GMT
Yeah Pete, "A Time To Kill" was the book that put Grisham on the literary map. I wonder if that book was made into a movie. I think it was.
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Post by Sandy on Apr 15, 2024 19:02:23 GMT
I just looked it up and yes, it was made into a movie, starring: Matthew McConaughey , Sandra Bullock , Samuel L. Jackson , et al.
Great cast!! I have a DVD player that I haven't used in years. I just might buy the movie at Amazon.
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Post by Hank on Apr 15, 2024 23:35:37 GMT
I may have seen it when I had Cable (yes I did just last fall, the lawyers house being destroyed was a heck of A scene. ) Sandra was one of my saved searches. And have never seen anything S Jackson was in that disappointed.
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