John Grisham's work has led to some of the best legal thriller adaptations in film, whether it's the paranoia-driven heights of Tom Cruise's The Firm or the cat-and-mouse fun of John Cusack's Runaway Jury . But where the movies have succeeded in translating his novels for the screen, there have only been a handful of TV adaptations, none of which have replicated the formula of their books.

This is where USA Network's The Rainmaker comes in. The second adaptation of Grisham's 1995 novel, after the 1997 Matt Damon-led film, centers on Rudy Baylor, a recent law school graduate who finds himself fired from a prestigious firm and, with nowhere else to go, starts working for an ambulance chaser firm, beginning with a high-profile wrongful death suit.

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