The Rainmaker
Ratings47
Average rating3.5
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Ratings47
Average rating3.5
It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer...except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it.By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he's in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings. A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous million-dollar war of nerves, skill and outright violence--a fight that could cost one young lawyer his life, or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land....From the Paperback edition.
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“I was handed a beautiful set of facts, a rotten but rich defendant, an incredibly sympathetic trial judge and one lucky break after another at trial”
I often search for such statements in books. One that describes 80 - 90% of what the book is about. And this, along with our protagonist being a saviour of a pretty, helpless girl, is what the Rainmaker is about.
Life happened to Rudy Baylor. Rudy Baylor didn't move in any direction. And for this reason, I found the first half terribly boring. Later on it picked up, when he actually started using his brains, to turn around the situations against him. He does a lot of paperwork, yeah. But we don't see that, in the book, which kind of creates an impression that he did nothing. Maybe the book's just honest.
For a rookie, maybe it's just paperwork and a lucky break.
There are a few statements in the beginning, that gives us an idea of the actual practice of law. It's insightful.
It's witty, amusing, honest - a good one-time read.
