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The appeal

Title:

The appeal

Author:

Grisham, John.

ISBN:

9781844138234

9781844138548

9781844138555

Personal Author:

Grisham, John.

Publication Information:

London : Century, 2008.

Physical Description:

358 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

When a huge chemical company faces a massive payout after being accused of dumping toxic waste in a town's water supply, its' owner, a powerful figure on Wall Street, decides to purchase himself his own Supreme Court Justice so that he can manipulate the judicial system to his own benefit.

Subject Term:

Chemical industry -- Fiction.

Chemical industry -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- Fiction.

Trials (Offenses against the environment) -- Fiction.

Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Mississippi -- Fiction.

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

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Summary

In a courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into the water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Supreme Court, and tries to fix the case by planting their own man as a supreme justice.