James Grippando

Jack Swyteck. Nuestro protagonista. ¿Qué se siente al ser un abogado de defensa criminal en Miami? Simplemente imagine que su padre es el gobernador de la Florida , su mejor amigo estuvo una vez en el corredor de la muerte, su madre una exiliada cubana y su vida amorosa podria llenar un capitulo entero en el reglamento de amor y de guerra (edicion del idiota ) de Cupido. Jack Swyteck tiene una nueva novia, Mia, piensa que ella puede ser en realidad "la definitiva". Su vida con ella es tranquila, hasta que Mia desaparece. Entonces Jack recibe un doble golpe: descubre que su amante esta casada y su marido rico ha recibido una nota de rescate que dice "¿Que valor tiene mia para usted?". Esta nota señala a Mia como la ultima victima de un secuestrador que esta sembrando el terror entre las familias mas ricas de Florida. Es una demanda cruel, y, segun el historial del secuestrador, las consecuencias de pagar demasiado poco son mortales. Lo peor de todo es que el marido de Mia conoce todo acerca de su romance con Jack y decide pagar al secuestrador exactamente lo que su esposa infiel vale para el: nada. Sintiendose engañado, Jack en principio se resiste a involucrarse. Pero conforme los secretos sobre el extraño matrimonio de Mia y su misterioso pasado se destapan Jack se ve atraido hacia un caso que puede colocarle cara a cara con un loco.

Llega la traducción al castellano del aclamado autor de éxito internacional con veinte novelas que se disfrutan en todo el mundo traducidas a veintiséis idiomas. Jack Swyteck. ¿Que se siente al ser un abogado de defensa criminal en Miami?Simplemente imagine que su padre es gobernador de Florida, su mejor amigo estuvo una vez en el corredor de la muerte, su madre es una exiliada cubana y su vida amorosa podria llenar un capitulo entero en el reglamento de amor y de guerra (edicion del idiota) de Cupido. El abogado de Miami Jack Swyteck se vera involucrado en el proceso penal mas explosivo de su carrera - un caso que comienza con un asesinato en una base militar y concluye con una sorpresa impactante que va a cambiar la vida de Jack para siempre. Una hermosa mujer visita a Jack y le ruega que la represente. Ella dice que esta a punto de ser arrestada por el asesinato de su marido, un oficial destinado en la Bahia de Guantanamo. Al no tener experiencia en derecho militar y sintiendo que la mujer no le esta diciendo toda la verdad, Jack rechaza el caso. Pero ella le deja caer una bomba: Asegura que es la madre adoptiva del hijo biologico de Jack - un niño al que el nunca llego a conocer-. Jack debera representarla o nunca podra ver al niño. Jack se ve forzado a aceptar el caso, pero con gran desconfianza. Su nueva cliente es poco fiable, una chantajista que bien podria ser una asesina. Jack debera viajar a Guantanamo y luego a La Habana para investigar a personas que claramente tienen mucho que ocultar. Un caso muy complicado con muchas preguntas sin respuesta y un juicio que sacudira a la ciudad de Miami y que no dejara de sorprender a Jack hasta el final, cuando se vea obligado a enfrentarse a una testigo sorpresa . Fiel al estilo Grippando No escuches al mal es un thriller complejo, de ritmo rapido, y adictivo que te mantendra en vilo hasta el final.

Peyton Shields parecía tener todo cuanto una mujer joven como ella puede desear: éxito en su profesión, la Pediatría, que ejerce en el Hospital Infantil de Boston y un marido que renuncia a su entorno por amor. Pero esa perfeccion no es real: teme por la fidelidad de su marido, por la estabilidad de su vida y por los macabros ramos de rosas rojas con los que un admirador secreto le demuestra su amor y amenaza su cordura enviandole mensajes en los que le escribe que la prefiere muerta antes que sin su amor.Cuando su viejo amigo Gary es secuestrado, Peyton y su marido se sumergen en un pozo de mentiras y sospechas mutuas, donde nadie cree a nadie y todo parece una gran mentira preparada. El peligro esta mas cerca de lo que ellos creen y la realidad es mas tenebrosa de lo que sospechan.

Money to Burn takes off like a rocket from page one and never slows down. Highly recommended. Christopher Reich, author of Rules of VengeanceIn this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines, bestselling author James Grippando (Lying with Strangers, Intent to Kill, Born to Run) explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people who run them can occur in a matter of hourseven minutes. Fans of John Grishams The Firm and the thrillers of Lisa Scottoline and Phillip Margolin are sure to love Money to Burn: a perfectly mixed cocktail of dry wit, sophisticated voice, believable characters, [and] non-stop suspense (Joseph Finder, author of Vanished and Paranoia).

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jacks life forever.A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says shes about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Having no expertise in military law and sensing that the woman isnt telling him the entire truth, Jack turns her down. Then she drops a bombshell: She claims shes the adoptive mother of Jacks biological son -- a child hes never met. Either Jack must represent her or hell never see the boy.So Jack agrees, but with great foreboding. He has an unreliable client -- a blackmailer who just might be a murderer -- and he has to travel to Gitmo and on to Havana to tussle with people who clearly have a lot to hide. This is a case with as many twists and turns as it has unanswered questions, and the personal toll on Jack wont end until hes forced to confront the ultimate surprise witness in a trial that rocks the city of Miami.In signature Grippando style, Hear No Evil is an intricate, fast-paced, and captivating thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.

In an exciting new series that critics have called "John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum," Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet.Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And hes Jacks newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jacks best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isnt 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 with her in Theos 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 enemiesleft it for them to fight over, that is. She named six heirs in her will, but theres a catch: No one gets a penny until all but one of the heirs are dead. Its 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 sixTatum Knightis a professional killer. As the heirs begin to fall, Jack and his unforgettable 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?From the harrowing first scene through its shocking climax, Last to Die delivers nonstop action and chilling suspense that fans around the world have come to expect from bestselling author James Grippando.

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself, in this timely and pulse-pounding thriller that explores the stories behind the headlines from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julias abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julias rejects her bosss unwanted sexual advances. Suddenlythanks to an "anonymous" tip to U. S. immigration authoritiesshe is arrested, locked in detention with criminals, and slated for deportation. Jacks only viable legal move to save her is asyluma long shot thats become nearly impossible in todays charged political climate.When Julia and Beatriz made the perilous trek north to freedom, they thought theyd left the danger behind them. But now, even Miami isnt safe. A ruthless enemy may have tracked them to south Florida and is biding time, patiently waiting to strike. In a case where the stakes have never been higher, Jack Sywteck may not be able to save his clienteven if he wins.

The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from todays headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking scene.Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father. Matthew Rey has been kidnapped while on business in Columbias exotic port city of Cartagena. The ransom demand of three million dollars is far more than the Rey family can ever hope to raise.Fortunately, Matthew had purchased an insurance policy to protect against just such a threat. Unfortunately, the kidnappers seem to know all about the policy, and the insurance company, suspecting fraud, is refusing to pay out. With nowhere to turn, Nick links up with Alex, a beautiful, street-smart woman who may be the only person capable of negotiating with Matthews abductors. But Nick soon discovers that the gravest dangers to him and his family are not the kidnappers and their guns, but the men in suits: lawyers, to be exact, at a powerful firm with something to hide, and they will stop at nothing to keep Nick from unleashing the truth.

Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Floridas governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jacks clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair.But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other. Together they must find a way to overcome their cunning tormentors manipulation . . . even as the stakes are being raised to far more perilous heights.

From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as todays headlines. When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Floridas flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm that threatens to rage out of control when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media, Towsons defense attorney, Jack Swyteck, knows that the stakes could not be higherinside or outside the old Suwanee County Couthouse. The evidence against his client, which includes a threatening text message referencing "strange fruit" on the river, seems overwhelming. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamals gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another lynching that occurred back in the Jim Crow days of 1944. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With a community in chaos and a young mans life in jeopardy, Jack will use every resource to find out. As he navigates each twist and turn of the search, Jack becomes increasingly convinced that his client may himself be the victim of a criminal plan more sinister than the case presented by the state attorney. Risking his own reputation, this principled man who has devoted his life to the law plunges headfirst into the darkest recesses of the Souths past, and its murky present, to uncover answers. For Jack, its about the truth. Traversing time, from the days of strict segregation to the present, hell find itno matter what the costand bring much-needed justice to Suwanee County.

Single mother Amy Parkens feels trapped by a boring job, low pay, and no time for her young daughter. But thats before $200,000 in cold, hard cash arrives in an unmarked box. Desperately needing the money, Amy fears a setup or a connection to her mothers suicide 20 years earlier. So she sets out to find the source.A decent, responsible small-town doctor, Ryan Duffy didnt expect to inherit a fortune from his electrician father, who had millions stashed away in the attic. Did it come from extortion, robbery, or some other terrible crime? Painful as it is, Ryan is drawn to his fathers dark past, determined to find the truth.Desperate for answers, Amy and Ryan soon cross paths on a dangerous quest that takes them through a labyrinth of deception and blackmail - leading them to a man of unfathomable power who holds the key to their fortunes...and their lives.

Jack Swytecks new girlfriend,Mia, is keeping secrets from thelove-struck Miami attorney,not the least of which is a wealthy and powerful husband. Then Miais kidnapped by a manipulativeabductor who makes a chilling ransom request, Pay me what shes worth. Now Jacks the one underthe gun, since Mias spouse has decided his unfaithful wife is worth nothing. Time is of the essence, and if Jack picks the wrong number,Mia could end up like thekidnappers other victims: dead.

In the latest novel from the bestselling author whom critics have called "the thriller writer to watch," lawyer Jack Swyteck tackles a case in which the life of his best friend hangs in the balanceand in which nothing is as it seems.Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck isnt looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless and in jail for threatening to jump off a bridge. But from the moment Jack is called to defend the man, who goes by the name Falcon, something is amiss. For one thing, Falcon comes up with the $10,000 bailin cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of the abandoned car in which he is living.Panicked and on the run, Falcon takes Jacks best friend, Theo, hostage. They end up barricaded in a motel room, and Theo isnt the only one at Falcons mercy. Jack must work with the cops and their crackerjack negotiator to free Theo and the other captives before Falcon decides he has nothing to lose by killing them all.What Jack doesnt know is that Falcon has a much bigger agenda, and that there are people behind the scenes who will stop at nothing to keep their dangerous secrets. Thus unfolds a riveting, lightning-paced story, as only James Grippando can tell it.

Defending a woman accused of murdering the man who sexually assaulted her, Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck must uncover where the truth lies between innocence, vengeance, and justice in this spellbinding tale of suspensebased on shocking true-life eventsfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Gone Again.According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past. It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughters surgery. But their long-awaited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keiths wife, Isabelle, in the terminal, accusing her of conspiring to kill the man who raped her in college. Jack quickly agrees to represent Isa, but soon discovers that to see justice done, he must separate truth from liesan undertaking that proves more complicated than the seasoned attorney expects.Inspired by an actual case involving a victim of sexual assault sent to prison for the death of her attacker, James Grippandos twisty thriller brilliantly explores the fine line between victim and perpetrator, innocence and guilt, and cold-blooded revenge and rightful retribution.

A first-year resident at a major Boston childrens hospital, Peyton Shields finally has the career shes always dreamed ofeven though her marriage to Kevin, an up-and-coming young lawyer, is suffering from her hard work and impossibly long hours. But a late-night drive home in a heavy snowstorm changes everything when she is forced off the road.No one, not even Kevin, believes Peytons claims that the "accident" was deliberate. Suddenly, her wonderful life has turned dark and uncertain, and the terror has only just begun. Her husband is growing inexplicably distant and bitter, accusing her of paranoia, betrayal, and infidelity. And a series of bizarre and frightening events is moving Peyton steadily closer to a faceless, resourceful enemy who is watching her every move.

After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesnt handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend whos being sued.At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets a hefty settlement. But then Jack finds out it was all a scam. Two days later, Jessies body turns up floating in Jacks bathtub. As the evidence mounts against him, Jack finds himself on a collision course with dark secrets from the past and a possible killer is beyond suspicion.

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