Il re dei torti

by John Grisham, Tullio Dobner (Translator)

Overview

Clay Carter, avvocato, trentun anni, lavora all'Ufficio del gratuito patrocinio: tanto lavoro, pochi soldi e ancora meno soddisfazioni. E anche la vita sentimentale sta andando a rotoli: la fidanzata Rebecca l'ha appena lasciato perché lo considerava un immaturo, un perdente. Ma proprio mentre segue l'ennesimo caso disperato - un ex tossicodipendente reo confesso di un omicidio - un enigmatico personaggio legato a una potente multinazionale farmaceutica gli propone un accordo: milioni di dollari pur di far passare sotto silenzio i veri motivi della tragedia. Clay non ci pensa due volte. E così in breve lascia il suo squallido ufficio, apre uno studio lussuoso e si ritrova ai vertici della celebrità, proiettato nella ristretta cerchia dei ricchissimi esperti in cause per danni alla collettività, avvocati di grido che viaggiano con il loro jet privato. Ma presto arriva il giorno in cui anche Clay deve pagare il suo conto...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788852015809
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	10/07/2010
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	670 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

As a young boy in Arkansas, John Grisham dreamed of being a baseball player. Fortunately for his millions of fans, that career didn't pan out. His family moved to Mississippi in 1967, where Grisham eventually received a law degree from Ole Miss and established a practice in Southaven for criminal and civil law. In 1983, Grisham was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served until 1990.

While working as an attorney, Grisham witnessed emotional testimony from the case of a young girl's rape. Naturally inquisitive, Grisham's mind started to wander: what if the terrible crime yielded an equally terrible revenge? These questions of right and wrong were the subject of his first novel, A Time to Kill (1988), written in the stolen moments before and between court appearances. The book wasn't widely distributed, but his next title would be the one to bring him to the national spotlight. The day after he finished A Time to Kill, Grisham began work on The Firm (1991), the story of a whiz kid attorney who joins a crooked law firm. The book was an instant hit, spent 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and was made into a movie starring Tom Cruise.

With the success of The Firm, Grisham resigned from the Mississippi House of Representatives to focus exclusively on his writing. What followed was a string of bestselling legal thrillers that demonstrated the author's uncanny ability to capture the unique drama of the courtroom. Several of his novels were turned into blockbuster movies.

In 1996, Grisham returned to his law practice for one last case, honoring a promise he had made before his retirement. He represented the family of a railroad worker who was killed on the job, the case went to trial, and Grisham won the largest verdict of his career when the family was awarded more than $650,000.

Although he is best known for his legal thrillers, Grisham has ventured outside the genre with several well-received novels (A Painted House, Bleachers, et al) and an earnest and compelling nonfiction account of small-town justice gone terribly wrong (The Innocent Man). The popularity of these stand-alones proves that Grisham is no mere one-trick pony but a gifted writer with real "legs."

Hometown:

Oxford, Mississippi, and Albemarle County, Virginia

Date of Birth:

February 8, 1955

Place of Birth:

Jonesboro, Arkansas

Education:

B.S., Mississippi State, 1977; J.D., University of Mississippi, 1981

Website:

http://www.jgrisham.com