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Summary: On par with Grippando's previous excellent novels
Review: What can I say? James Grippando has a uncanny ability to write stories that feel fresh and exciting. This book is a good follow up in the Swyteck series. Fresh characters and a well written story make this a exciting read. I'm looking forward to Grippando's "Hear no Evil". This is going to be the 4th Swyteck novel. This one is coming out Aug of 2004 and I'm putting my time aside to enjoy this one. Thanks James for your hard work and efforts. Well done.
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Summary: Solid and entertaining
Review: When his best friend and ex-client Theo asks him to represent his brother Tatum, lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't really have a choice. Tatum is a former contract killer who swears that he's moved on to leg-breaking. But when Tatum is named as an heir in a strange will left by a murdered beauty, he knows he needs a lawyer. The will leaves 48 million dollars to one of six people--whichever one remains alive last. Under some circumstances, that could mean that the money will be a long time coming. But 48 million dollars is enough to tempt someone to take shortcuts. That someone might just be Jack's client--but Jack trusts Theo and Theo is willing to alibi his brother. Finding the truth takes Jack from his home in Miami to Africa and back but boils down to the simple question--why did murdered Sally Flemming leave all of her money to the people she hated--and why did she name exactly these six? If Jack wants to survive, he'll need to know the answer. Author James Grippando pursues an intriguing story line. Ordinary people will do strange things for mega-millions. And some of the people inheriting (including client Tatum) are anything but ordinary. I would have liked to see more of the reactions from the innocent but greedy victims, but Grippando delivers an exciting story. Grippando's strong writing keeps the reader engrossed. LAST TO DIE isn't a masterpiece, but it is a solid and well written adventure.
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Summary: The Last to Die Gets the Big Bucks
Review: When Sally Flemming hires hit man Clarence "Tatum" Knight, brother of Trial Lawyer Jack Swytek's pal Theo, to kill someone, Tatum can't believe the someone she wants killed is herself. But an unknown stalker had brutally stabbed Sally five years earlier and killer her five-year-old daughter. It's taken Sally five long years to get her revenge and to get that revenge, she has to die. Someone does kill Sally and Tatum gets a letter in the mail inviting him to the reading of Sally's will. Tatum hires Jack to represent him through his brother. Tatum tells Jack why Sally had tried to hire him and he says he turned her down, however apparently she'd found somebody else. Jack goes to the reading of the will along with his new client and meets the other beneficiaries: Gerry Colletti the divorce lawyer who got Sally into the sack against her will, Miguel Rios her first husband, Mason Rudsky the assistant state attorney who believed that Sally had a lover who killed her daughter and that she was covering up and Deirdre Meadows the reporter who wrote a book blaming Sally for the death of her daughter. Sally leaves forty-six million dollars to this group, only there's a catch. It goes to the last one living. At first the members of this group seem to believe that nobody's going to get the money, at least for a long time, but then Deirdre winds up dead, then Gerry and the police are looking at Jack's client. It appears as if somebody from outside the group is killing off the beneficiaries and Jack wants to find out who before somebody else dies. This is a well written, taught thriller that I throughly enjoyed and I think you will too. The characters are gripping, the attention to detail is excellent and the red herrings believable. A perfect book to spend a weekend with. Ms. Mindy Adams
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