The rainmaker. (PR-5). Upper intermediate
Editorial PEARSON LONGMAN
España peninsular
- Editorial PEARSON LONGMAN
- ISBN13 9781408276501
- ISBN10 140827650X
- Tipo LIBRO
- Año de Edición 2011
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
Materias
Lecturas Graduadas De InglésThe rainmaker. (PR-5). Upper intermediate
Editorial PEARSON LONGMAN
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
In this courtroom thriller, a young man barely out of law school finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in Americaand 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. Rudy soon realizes that the Blacks 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 seenand one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneysand powerful industriesin America.