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The book's protagonist dreams of becoming such a "rainmaker" - which comes true, but not exactly in the way he expected. Rudy Baylor is about to graduate from Memphis State Law School. He secures a position with a Memphis law firm but loses the job when the firm is bought out by the large Memphis law firm Tinley Britt.
Nov 21, 1997 · Rudy Baylor, the hero of “The Rainmaker,” works the other end of the scale from the legal superpowers in most of John Grisham’s stories.
Defense attorney Leo F. Drummond offers to stand for Rudy as Rudy is sworn in before the judge. Afterwards, Rudy discovers that the FBI has raided Bruiser's office, and Bruiser has disappeared. Before fleeing, Bruiser gave Rudy and Deck $5000 each.
Rudy Baylor is the main protagonist and the novel’s autodiegetic narrator. He is a young man in his 20s who is in his third and last year of law school. The only reason Rudy chose the law profession was to spite his father, with whom he had a strained relationship.
The Rainmaker covers an April-January period in which Rudy Baylor graduates from the Memphis State University law school, begins a law career after several false starts, and tries a major law...
Pyrrhic Victory: Rudy wins his case but he's so worn down and hardened by the experience that he decides to give up on his dream of a legal career and move to a new town.
Rudy Baylor could become, in the hands of another author, a schlimazel, an inevitable victim of bad luck.
