造雨人 – The Rainmaker by John Grisham

在毕业前夕，鲁迪·贝勒遇到了他的第一个“客户”——布莱克夫妇。他们的儿子唐尼·雷身患白血病而无钱医治，保险公司拒绝支付唐尼的医疗费。鲁迪意识到布莱克一家被保险公司欺骗，他将要发起的是史上金额最大的保险欺诈诉讼。就这样，一贫如洗、毫无经验的鲁迪，与强大的保险业、顶级的律师团队展开了正面交锋，他也随之陷入了充斥着谎言与操纵的旋涡……

InThe Rainmaker, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America — and 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. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really 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 seen — and 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 attorneys — and powerful industries — in America.