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MEGA VÝHODNÉ
A Mississippi jury returns a $41-million verdict
against a chemical company accused of dumping carcinogenic waste
into a small town's water supply. The company's ruthless
billionaire CEO is thwarted and the good guys (a courageous young
woman who lost her husband and child and her two lawyers...
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A Mississippi jury returns a $41-million verdict
against a chemical company accused of dumping carcinogenic waste
into a small town's water supply. The company's ruthless
billionaire CEO is thwarted and the good guys (a courageous young
woman who lost her husband and child and her two lawyers who've
gone half a million dollars in debt preparing her case) receives
its just reward. This sounds like the end of a Grisham legal
thriller, but instead it's the beginning of a book-length lesson in
how greed and big business have corrupted our electoral and
judicial systems. Grisham's characters are over-the-top. The CEO
and the other equally overdone villains—his venal trophy wife, a
self-serving senator and a pair of smarmy political fixers—as well
as the unbelievably good-hearted, self-sacrificing lawyers and an
honorable state judge, are one dimensional. Michael Beck, with his
natural Southern drawl, does a fine job of adding credibility and
nuance to the large cast. But his efforts are for naught. In fact,
the more he makes us feel for these characters, the less apt we are
to be satisfied with the sourball moral of Grisham's downbeat
discourse.
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- Nakladatel: century
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- Rok vydání: 2008
- Jazyk: Angličtina
- Druh: 1 x kniha
- Počet stran: 358
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