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Book Review of The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker
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Wonderful Book! I have reread this several times.
The story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, ruthless companies in America and exposing a complex , multibillion dollar insurance scam.
In the 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 first skeptical, he soon realized that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever heard 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 defenxe attorney and powerful industries in America.