King of Damages

#1 New York Times Bestseller • The public defender's office isn't known as a training ground for bright young lawyers. Clay Carter has been working there for a long time, and like most of his colleagues, he dreams of a better job at a real law firm. When he reluctantly takes on the case of a young man accused of a random street killing, he thinks it's just another of the many senseless murders that plague Washington on a weekly basis.

As Clay researches his client's background, he stumbles upon a conspiracy too horrific to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the midst of a complex case against one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, looking at a massive settlement that will completely change his life—and that will make him, almost overnight, the newest tort king of the legal profession...