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After twelve years as a successful trial lawyer at a high-powered Miami law firm, James Grippando is now the acclaimed author of eight suspenseful thrillers.
He lives in south Florida with his wife and two children.
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| Money to Burn |
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Michael Cantella's has the perfect life as a rising star on Wall Street until the love of his life vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Four years later Michael is back on track until he logs onto his computer and sees that his investment account has been mysteriously wiped out.
With a life on the brink of ruin, facing divorce from his second wife and pursued by the FBI, Michael suspects that his first wife has "come back from the dead."
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| Intent to Kill |
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Three years after his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident, shock jock Ryan Jones receives an anonymous tip that turns the accident into a homicide: "I know who did it." A series of shocking on-air conversations unravels a cover-up that will change the lives of all involved parties.
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Eighth in the Jack Swyteck Series:
Born to Run |
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The president of the US asks Jack Swyteck's father Harry to become his new VP when the former vice president winds up dead hunting alligators in the Everglades.
Reluctanctly, Jack accompanies Harry to Washington, where Jack finds himself at the heart of a complicated and lethal cover-up that spans nearly 50 years.
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Seventh in the Jack Swyteck series:
Last Call |
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Jack was the lawyer who proved his friend Theo innocent of a murder he did not commit.
Theo is in trouble again. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood wants Theo to help him. In return, the convict will finger the man who murdered Theo's mother. Danger lurks as Jack follows a twenty-year-old trail of evidence.
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| Lying with Strangers |
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Peyton Shields, first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital, is forced off the road during a heavy snowstorm. Her marriage to up-and-coming lawyer Kevin is threatened when he does not believe her claim that the accident was deliberate. |
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Sixth in the Jack Swyteck series:
When Darkness Falls |
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Miami attorney jack Swyteck agrees to represent Falcon, a homeless man, on a minor charge. Falcon posts $10,000 bail, the body of a brutally murdered woman turns up, and it looks as if Falcon is the killer. Falcon kidnaps Jack's best friend, and Jack has mere hours to rescue his friend. |
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Fifth in the Jack Swyteck Series:
Got the Look |
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FBI agent Andie henning is tracking a ruthless kidnapper plaguing south Florida. This time the kidnapper's victim is the wife of the state's richest horse breeder. The ransom is $1 million.
Jack Swyteck's new girlfriend, Mia, goes missing and surprise, Mia is married. Her husband's refusal to meet the ransom demand brings Jack into the case, in hot pursuit of a madman.
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Fourth in the Jack Swyteck series:
Hear No Evil |
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A beautiful woman is accused of murder, and she wants Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck to defend her. The victim is her husband, an officer at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay and the son of a prominent Cuban exile.
Having no experience in military justice and sensing the woman isn't telling the entire truth, Jack agrees with great foreboding to represent her. That decision plunges him headlong into a case with as many twists and turns as unanswered questions, and a trial that will bring him face to face with the ultimate surprise witness.
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Third in the Jack Swyteck series:
Last to Die |
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Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack Swyteck's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum.
A gorgeous young woman has been shot dead in her Mercedes on a Miami street. Tatum denies that he had anything to do with it, but he admits to Jack that he did meet her with Theor's bar, where she tried to hire him.
Sally Fenning was worth forty-eight million dollars when she died. Money had never made her happy, so she left it all to her enemies - left it for them to fight over, that is. She named six heirs in her will, but there's a catch: No one gets a penny until all but one of the heirs are dead. It's survival of the greediest.
Quickly the lawyers gear up for a bitter legal battle, but Jack braces himself for much worse. He alone knows that heir number six - Tatum Knight - is a professional killer. As the heirs begin to fall, Jack and his sidekick, Theo, are in a race against time to discover if Tatum is behind all the killing. Or is someone even more frightening, more dangerous, the odds-on favorite to be the last to die?
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Second in the Jack Swyteck series:
Beyond Suspicion |
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For smart, tough Miami criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck, it was a golden opportunity to help out his beautiful ex-girlfriend Jessie Merrill, who sold her life insurance for a cash payment when she wrongly believed she was dying.
Now, thanks to Jack's courtroom prowess, Jessie can keep the $1.5 million she received. But it turns out that Swyteck and the insurance company are both victims of a gorgeous scam artist. And when Jessie's lifeless corpse is discovered in his bathtub, the attorney is suddenly wanted for murder. Framed and desperate - on the run from the police and a powerful criminal consortium willing to go to any lengths to retrieve the money - Jack must exhume the dark secrets of aburied past to save his freedom, his career, and his life.
But even his unique legal skills cannot keep him out of the murderous sights of a cold killer - one who wants Jack Swyteck's blood...and is beyond suspicion.
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| Last to Die |
| by James Fox Miller |
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This is a really good read and I recommend it to anyone, but particularly to those of you who like lawyer books and books with continuing characters.
This is Grippando’s eighth book and third featuring Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck who is also the son of a former Florida Governor. Swyteck first appeared in The Pardon (1994) which was Mr. Grippando’s first book, written over several years as the author continued to be a full-time lawyer with a very prestigious South Florida law firm. He then wrote several very good stand-alone novels, all of which are worthwhile reading, and then went back to Swyteck in Beyond Suspicion (2002).
Although Last to Die can be enjoyed without reading the earlier books, I strongly recommend that the reader start from the beginning of the series in order to fully appreciate this wonderful character. I am advised by the author that his next novel also features lawyer Swyteck, and based upon what I know about that hatching plot, having read the earlier books will greatly enhance the future enjoyment of what is to come.
Last to Die has a great plot, is extremely fast-paced and keeps the reader’s interest all the way through – there is not a boring page.
Grippando is still practicing law part-time with a top-notch national firm. Being a trial lawyer myself, I am very conscious of “legal authenticity,” particularly in courtroom scenes. Grippando’s courtroom dialogue is not only first-rate, but his State Judge even makes a lot of correct evidentiary rulings. (Some practitioners may now take the opportunity to point out this is fiction.)
Get ready for a terrific story. Our hero has been retained to defend his friend’s brother – a hit man who claims he has gone straight. The hit man claims a woman tried to hire him to kill her but that he refused. Now the lady is dead and a lot of interesting things begin to happen.
This is a very over-simplified “teaser”. Last To Die is very, very intricately plotted. If you do your homework on Jack Swyteck, not only will his three stories to date bring you great reading enjoyment, but the next book will also be much more meaningful. |
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| Posted 04-10-2003 |
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