Who said history is boring". In the modern world, money is just about everything and although it may seem to satisfy all our needs, it always leads one to disaster. Money goes faster than it comes. This is exactly what John Grisham portrays in his recent novel, The King of Torts. The novel takes the reader on a man's journey from rags to riches and then back] again. Grisham describes the journey and makes it alive using simple literary devices and effective diction and thus creates a very inimitable and authentic style of writing. The style in turn makes the plot even more interesting. The reader is taken on a thrill ride of twists and turns which increases the complexity of the plot. The main character, Clay, goes through an amazing transformation due to greed and this gives the novel a sense of realism. This novel has everything...