The Rainmaker

... Bruiser, Prince, Deck - and most of all Miss Birdie?! We know where Rudy will end up, but what happens to this priceless cast? They are the foundations on which the story is built. Forget insurance companies, an old lady can teach them something about engineering predictable responses!
Mind you, the beginning is a wonderful literary helter-skelter of how your career and life prospects can progress. From which "peak" the story unfolds.
However, the unanswered questions are ... did the boys get their money, and what did Deck do?! Will we ever know?

the funniest novel Grisham has ever written (2/2 people found this helpful)

I so much enjoyed reading this book. The writing is extraordinary, John Grisham shows us again that he's an expert. When you read the book, you'll think you're near the main character, that you're sitting right beside him. The moral message of the book jumps right into your face and you also suffer and laugh with the main characters.

In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America - and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam.

In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients", Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments, a bone marrow transplant.

While Rudy is at first sceptical, he soon realises that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen - and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation.

The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, he has no job, hasn't even passes the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys - and powerful industries - in America.

I would give this book five stars, because it's the funniest novel Grisham has ever written. There's so much laughter, but - and I think that's life - there are also parts where tears will come running down your face. It's such a sensitive side of the main character Grisham shows, and that also tells us that Grisham's writings are varied and not always the same lawyer stories we expect.

Please, read the book, it's worth every minute you spend with it.

(Written by Stopfel !!!!!!!!!!! )

Awesome (2/2 people found this helpful)

In The Rainmaker, John Grisham really makes justice and just knows how to work his magic in transporting us through twisty unpredictable plots. He does it in such a magnificent triumphant way there's no putting this one down. Rudy Baylor is the hero here, fresh out of law school and desperate to get the bar exam. He has to face the biggest case that pushes him against a shady insurance company that specialises in selling health coverage door-to-door in poor neighborhoods. A working-class mother whose son is dying of leukemia as a result of the insurance company's refusal to pay for a bone-marrow transplant hires Rudy to sue the company for $10 million.

What John Grisham does so brilliantly though is paint the reality of the sad situation, juxtaposing various events with the civil litigation within the story that makes for effective emotional entertainment for the reader. When everything that really matters is already gone, John Grisham successfully conveys Rudy's determination in highlighting that money is beside the point. I really enjoyed this story, very well written.

Not one of his best (1/1 people found this helpful)

A classic storyline of poor boy making good, is rather spoilt as previous reviews state by the heroes endless good fortune. Grisham as always tells a good tale & the story keeps you hooked, but it is some way short of his earlier efforts like The Firm & Pelican Brief.

Classic courtroom brawling from 'The Master' (1/1 people found this helpful)

Classic Grisham in his favoured role. A young lawyer hooks into a case where a big insurance company has made a rick in not paying out a claim. It's not quite black and white, more of on off greyish colour and of course the big boys hire the big shot lawyers who battle against the rookie who has never fought a case before. You can be forgiven for thinking you know the ending already. You're wrong!

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