The Rainmaker, John Grisham
The Rainmaker, John Grisham
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The Rainmaker

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 17 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2000

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A taut and terrific page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) from the master of the courtroom thriller

“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles Times

In development as a USA Network series starring John Slattery

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.

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Michael on 2008-03-12 15:09:40

good book if it was unabridged as bookfree says it is

Goodreads review by Baba on December 10, 2024

Newly qualified lawyer Rudy Baylor can't get a job for love or money, so he tries another route into his chosen profession by seeing if he can get a good case; he gets lucky and finds himself representing a poor working family that had been maltreated by an insurance company. Can one recent graduate......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on January 29, 2022

Rudy Baylor is on the cusp of graduating from law school. In his final semester, he is required to give free legal advice to a group of senior citizens. Dot and Buddy Black are his first clients. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for hi......more

Goodreads review by Max on April 10, 2012

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, h......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on May 30, 2023

Grisham at his average level, which means quite a lot for many other writers. Interesting, alert, easy to read. Some facts are hardly believable, including the way to chose the jury. Quite a strange final, too much money transforming into nothing at all but some glory, a murder and Rudy's choice to......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 01, 2024

Three stories for the price of one! Methinks that John Grisham has a mellower side to his writing than we've seen thus far. Certainly THE RAINMAKER, rather than being the legal thriller that one might have expected on the basis of his previous novels, is more of a gentle bittersweet general fiction no......more

Quotes

“The pace is fast, the characters quirky, the result entertaining.”—USA Today

“A mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues . . . Grisham also reveals for the first time a surprising knack for comedy.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Passages in The Rainmaker are reminiscent of Pat Conroy. . . . This is Grisham’s most barbed book since The Firm, and it is by far his most entertaining.”—People

“Grisham’s vivid minor characters and near-Dickensian zeal for mocking pomposity and privilege are apt to endear him to his many readers all over again.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Grisham’s most sympathetic hero and most engrossing premise since his first runaway success, The Firm . . . an event-filled tale that works hard to please and largely succeeds.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Melding the courtroom savvy of A Time to Kill with the psychological nuance of The Chamber, imbued with wry humor and rich characters, this bittersweet tale, the author’s quietest and most thoughtful, shows that Grisham’s imagination can hold its own in a courtroom as well as on the violent streets outside.”—Publishers Weekly

“Grisham has combined many of the best qualities of his previous novels to write an entertaining and credible courtroom thriller.”—Chicago Tribune

“Never befrore has Grisham used the David-Goliath element so cleverly and powerfully as in The Rainmaker. And by combining it with nail-biting tension, wrenching suspense and unadulterated excitement, and by adding plenty of humor and a smidgen of romance, he has made this new novel his most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable to date.”—Buffalo News

“Grisham creates courtroom scenes of high humor and intense drama. . . . A good time will be had by all.”—New York Daily News

“Entertaining and well-written . . . The Rainmaker marks a return to Grisham’s snappy pacing and devilish sense of fun.”—Memphis Flyer

“Grisham has constructed a case and a courtroom drama strong enough to grab our attention.”—The New York Law Journal

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