Another very entertaining novel by John Grisham. Exposes the dirty little secret of Political Games behind the election of Supreme Court Justices in the state of Mississippi. It is also very frightening in the sense that big business and major insurance companies indirectly channel so much money into these elections through dummy corporations in order to fund the election campaign of their candidate for the Supreme Court.
As a result of this manoeuvre, their chosen candidate floods the advertising and television spots with his campaign and also acquires unlimited resources and secure a seat at the bench. This elected candidate after becoming the Justice will ofcourse always side with the big corporations and hence all the big litigations against these big business will be either reversed or rendered. As a result of this, many major insurance companies have become fearless and now dont settle out of the court because they are so confident about the outcome.
The story of how a well packaged and well marketed candidate can even become a Supreme Court Justice even though he/she does not have any experience at the bench....a very interesting read.
wow...seems ur really aspiring to a become full time blogger....
ReplyDeleteGrisham is my favourite too...i have read his Rainmaker so many times :)
will look out for the Appeal
ofcourse I do...it says it in my intro that I aspire to become that ;).....look out for The Chamber, A Time to Kill,The Client,The Pelican Brief etc too....very interesting reads :))
ReplyDeletei saw ur profile thats y i added "really" :P have read them all except the Client :D but Rainmaker is more fun as it has lot of humour in it :)
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Call him to India and he would get zillions of cases ... lol
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