The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright y
oung litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his coll
eagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the cas
e of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just ano
ther of the many senseless murders that hit Washington D.C.
every week. As he
digs deeper into his client's background, Clay stumbles upon a conspiracy too h
orrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case ag
ainst one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at an en
ormous settlement that would totally change his life - a settlement that would m
ake him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...
