Book description
The Partners at Finley & Figg - all two of them - often refer to
themselves as 'a boutique law firm.' 'Boutique,' as in chic, selective
and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are
is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance
chasers who've been in the trenches much too long making much too
little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs,
with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After
twenty plus years together Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an
old married couple, but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent
living from their seedy offices in southwest Chicago. And then change
comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young
but already burned-out attorney, walks out of his fast-track career at a
fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender and finds himself
literally at the doorstep of our 'boutique firm'. Once David sobers up
and comes to grips with the fact that he's suddenly unemployed, any job
- even one with Finley & Figg - looks OK to him. With their new
junior partner on board, F&F are ready to tackle a really big case,
a case that could make them rich without requiring them to actually
practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx , the no. 1
cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick
Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of billion, has
recently come under fire as several patients taking it have suffered
heart attacks. Wally smells money. A little online research confirms
Wally's suspicions - a huge plaintiff's firm in Florida is putting
together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg have
to do is find a handful of people who had a heart attack while taking
Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and
ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they won't even have to
enter a courtroom! It almost seems too good to be true. And it is.
John Grisham is the author of twenty-three novels, one work of
non-fiction, and one collection of short stories. His works are
translated into thirty-eight languages, and in 2011 he was awarded the
Harper Lee Prize for Fiction. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
