The Boston Globe, June 22nd, 1995
THE RAINMAKER By John Grisham Doubleday, 434 pp., $25.95 The secret of John Grisham's success is that he writes novels exposing the villainy of lawyers; the law is a line of work most Americans love to hate. The commercial genius of Grisham's sixth best seller, "The Rainmaker," is that he writes about two professions Americans love to hate. He gives us his familiar lawyers, immaculately and expensively suited, deeply tanned, luxuriously coiffed, fluent of tongue and entirely unprincipled. And the lawyers are defending other men in suits who are even worse -- insurance executives who don't care...
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