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The Verdict
The Verdict
Author: Barry Reed
Tough-talking, hard-drinking Frank Galvin is a cynical lawyer on the skids. Then a vital, young woman dies in a Catholic hospital, and Frank smells blood. Suddenly, with something to fight for, Frank comes alive, exploding in the courtroom, taking on both the hospital and the Catholic Church.
ISBN-13: 9780553233292
ISBN-10: 0553233297
Publication Date: 1983
Pages: 246
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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nawatramani avatar reviewed The Verdict on + 25 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This national bestseller is about a lawyer whose malpractice suit shakes up a powerful Catholic hospital and reveals a cover-up. This has been made into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Paul Newman.
SutterTom avatar reviewed The Verdict on + 191 more book reviews
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A great courtroom drama (that served as the basis for the excellent Paul Newman movie of the same name) about a medical malpractice case involving a poor young family & their downward spiraling lawyer versus the powers of both the religious & medical establishments.
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gigi avatar reviewed The Verdict on + 355 more book reviews
Riveting courtroom drama featuring an attorney, who for all intent and purpose had given up his career. But the case of a young woman who went into the catholic hospital to have a baby and came out a vegetable, was one that Galvin couldn't turn his back on. Going up against the Catholic Church, charging the Catholic hospital with negligence and a fifteen million dollar suit, just might be his last.
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Frank Galvin is a tough-talking, hard drinking, cynical lawyer on the skids. He was once a fighter-now he dosen't give a damn. When a mysterious accident at the Catholic hospital destroys the life of a vital young woman, Gavin smells blood. Suddenly, he's back-suing the guts out of the hospital and ripping the invincible medical establishment apart.


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