The Rainmaker

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John Grisham s five novels A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and The Chamber have been number one best sellers, and have a combined total of 47 million copies in print Now, in The Rainmaker, Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since A Time To Kill, and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed Combining suspense, narrative momentum, and humor as only John Grisham can, this is another spellbinding read from the most popular author of our time.Grisham s sixth spellbinding novel of legal intrigue and corporate greed displays all of the intricate plotting, fast paced action, humor, and suspense that have made him the most popular author of our time 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 hs 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 The problem is, Rudy s flat broke, has no job, hasn t even passed the bar, and is about to go head to head with one of the best defense attorneys and powerful industries in America From the Hardcover edition. Free Read The Rainmaker By John Grisham For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I m alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I m rightSmooth, savvy, satisfying I think this is my new favorite John Grisham novel While not heavy on scholarly nuance, it has some depth and is crisp, right hearted, expertly paced and reads like ice cold lemonade on the porch in summertime Please feel free to mentally substitute the similehot toddy curled up in front of a fire in winterif you prefer While this page turner is a very easy read, I wouldn t call this light as GI m alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I m rightSmooth, savvy, satisfying I think this is my new favorite John Grisham novel While not heavy on scholarly nuance, it has some depth and is crisp, right hearted, expertly paced and reads like ice cold lemonade on the porch in summertime Please feel free to mentally substitute the similehot toddy curled up in front of a fire in winterif you prefer While this page turner is a very easy read, I wouldn t call this light as Grisham does a good job infusing the narrative with a sense of importance and emotional attachment vis a vis the characters and the central plot Grisham knows his subject and has a knack for dispensing highly digestible tales that quickly suck his readers into the middle of the story where they remain engaged until the end I can think of worse ways to spend time than reading this author s work.PLOT SUMMARY We meet Rudy Baylor when he has not yet finished hi...Why did I like this book so much Because it showed the other side of lawyering the side that isn t romanticized in Grisham s other novels For once, there were no mobsters, no politicians with hidden agendas, no paranoid millionaires with money to burn, no fresh out of college rookies who land in hot water because they accidentally stumbled upon a secret that their storied firms had been keeping for years.Rudy struggles from the outset He s handed one opportunity after another, only to see Why did I like this book so much Because it showed the other side of lawyering the side that isn t romanticized in Grisham s other novels For once, there were no mobsters, no politicians with hidden agendas, no paranoid millionaires with money to burn, no fresh out of college rookies who...A very sloppy beginning and an even worse sloppy ending The beginning I found meandering There were just too many plot lines that contained no suspense or anything that grabbed me I couldn t even feel anything for the main character until close to the middle of the book The middle of the book, however, was fantastic It was engaging and fast paced I found myself not wanting to put the book down The centerpiece of the book, the main trial, was handled absolutely fantastically There were so A very sloppy beginning and an even worse sloppy ending The beginning I found meandering There were just too many plot lines that contained no suspense or anything that grabbed me I couldn t even feel anything for the main character until close to the middle of the book The middle of the book, however, was fantastic It was engaging and fast paced I found myself not wanting to put the book down The centerpiece of the book, the main trial, was handled absolutely fantastically The...My favorite Grisham novel This is the best one in my opinion The only one of his books I kept Rest, I gave them away Because I have outgrown him OK, I lied I kept his Brethren novel too But you get my point.This was him getting as close to being a...One of Grisham s books that I forgot I had read a long time back Very goodOne of my favourite Grisham books Great drama in the courtroom as Rudy Baylor, novice lawyer sues established, wealthy insurance company Great Benefit Their crime Repeatedly denying the claim of a terminally ill young man apparently just because they couldor so they thought.This book really brings out some importan...Leave it to John Grisham to turn a story that pivots on the technical language of an insurance policy into a riveting court room drama One of his best.I would ve liked Afleshed resolution to Miss Bertie s problems however.I haven t read a Grisham book since The Runaway Jury in 199...This is one of my 2 favorite Grisham novels don t bother with the movie, it s a campy mess of bad acting and awful direction IMHO actually, the movie is so bad that it is occasionally amusing.I love courtroom drama RAINMAKER pits the law student who hasn t even passed the bar yet and his paralawyer against the Big Bad Insurance Company that routinely denies EVERY claim made it against initially Grisham is at the top of his game here most of his novels are great first reads then give...John Grisham gives me hope that someday my writing will become noticed and that I will be able to make a living as a novelist I say this because The Rainmaker made it to number one on the New York Times best seller list despite the fact that it is only an average book The writing was good enough to keep me turning the pages, but the story lacked and the characters were painfully stereotypical, except oddly enough for the main character For a good guy, Rudy Baylor was unlikable, not in an anti John Grisham gives me hope that someday my writing will become noticed and that I will be able to make a living as a novelist I say this because The Rainmaker made it to number one on the New York Times best seller list despite the fact that it is only an average book The writing was good enough to keep ...EXCELLENT STORY, EXCELLENTCHARACTER DEVELOPMENT I believe I read this book a long time ago but did not add it to my list so I revisited the rainmaker I enjoyed Rudy Baler the young attorney who has met Mrs Black a woman who son has leukemia and has been denied a bone marrow transplant by her insurance company because he had a,preexisting condition he had the flu 5 years prior to his mother contracting for the insurance if you haven t read the Rainmaker and enjoy a good story 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The Rainmaker
  • English
  • 20 November 2017
  • Paperback
  • 419 pages
  • 0385339607
  • John Grisham
  • The Rainmaker