The Appeal: John Grisham

This is a heartbreaking story that exposes what goes on daily in the United States. An attorney couple of Mary and Wes Payton represent a client who lost her husband and child from cancer linked to the dumping of chemicals into the water supply from Krane Chemicals. The large corporation loses value in stocks after the court decision and is determined to see the decisions over-turned. Spending millions, they get a virtually unknown lawyer, Fisk, to run against the Supreme Court Justice McCarthy, who usually sides with the victims. Krane then waits for the new court decision. There is a short time period where you think Krane may not win because Fisk's little boy is injured in a baseball game and he thinks about the victims of malpractice and bad consumer products, but in the end votes for Krane because he is scared he will look silly. No one in the town dying of cancer gets any sort of compensation for Krane's deliberate laziness of dumping toxins in the water.