• The Rainmaker

  • A Novel
  • By: John Grisham
  • Narrated by: Frank Muller
  • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,127 ratings)

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The Rainmaker

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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Publisher's summary

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Grisham returns to the courtroom and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed.

Grisham's sixth spellbinding novel of legal intrigue and corporate greed displays all of the intricate plotting, fast-paced action, humor, and suspense that have made him the most popular author of our time.

In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, 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.

Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

©1995 John Grisham (P)1995 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.

Critic reviews

"Great fun to read.... The complex plotting is Grisham's major accomplishment." (Los Angeles Times)

"A taut and terrific page-turner." (Entertainment Weekly)

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Don't let crappy sound in preview scare you!

I didn't purchase this book for quite some time because the preview sounded like cassette quality, rest assured, the book is a good sound quality and a great book to boot! Well worth the credit!

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outstanding story

I loved the court room antics, especially the judge. Hated for the book to end.

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Cruel cruel world

There was a lot of information conveyed by this book, and it was really an interesting story, except for the romantic aside, which was unnecessary. If someone had taken time to clear the disk breaks out of the Audible production I think I could have given almost 5 stars. The repeated sentences can be defensible when the book is on compact disks or tape, being a way to let listeners know that they've inserted the correct follow-on disk or tape, but when you purchase an Audible book on purpose to avoid having to play around with all that ancient technology I think most of us must be annoyed by the incongruous interruptions. There is no category for rating technical issues when assigning stars, so I decided to rate the performance, even though the narrator was actually excellent and I would have given him 5 stars. So shame on Audible. Clean up your act.

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Really?

Waited 12 hours for such an anticlimactic ending. Kind of disappointing. The rest of the story was great. Way too many loose ends left untied.

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After "the firm" my favorite Grisham book

After the firm my favorite John Grisham book. Great storyline. At times a bit predictable

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Captivating

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

One of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to. Excellent narration, satisfying storyline. Highly recommend it!

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Story good, narrator bad

Loved the story. I always root for the underdog, and this checks all the boxes. The narrator leaves much to be desired for me, though. I have tried listening to other audio books he has narrated, and I have had to quit the book after a chapter.

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Felt like 3 books in 1, but great stuff.

At times the story felt like it was all over the place. Ms. Birdie's will, Kelly Ryker's abuse, and Donnie Ray Black's denied insurance claim were all interesting and I think Grisham could've written three shorter separate novels about each of them if he wanted to, but instead threw them all together in one. Still, Grisham doesn't dissapoint. The Rainmaker is another of Grisham's underdog lawyer stories that stands on par with The Firm and A Time to Kill.

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A nail biter!!

This was a great story of lil guy beats the big guy!! Big guy goes down!

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The Rainmaker

One of Grisham's best.

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