| Last Call: A Novel of Suspense Contributor(s): Grippando, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060831189 ISBN-13: 9780060831189 Publisher: Harper Large Print OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: Criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck learns that the sins of the past never die. . . Many years ago, Jack Swyteck saved Theo Knight's life. Theo grew up on the streets of Miami's roughest neighborhood and lost his mother to a violent crime. By the time he was a teenager, he was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit. Jack was the lawyer who proved him innocent. Now a successful bar owner, Theo has turned things around. But he needs Jack's aid again, this time more than ever. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood shows up at Theo's back door, asking for help. In return, he'll finger the man who murdered Theo's mother. But the answers aren't so simple, and soon Theo's own life is in danger. "Last Call" is a brilliant and bullet-fast thriller complete with revelations that no reader will ever forget. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Legal - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Jack Swyteck |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.11" W x 8.99" (1.30 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Miami, Florida - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: A kid from Miami's meanest streets, Theo Knight lost his mother to a violent crime. He was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit when lawyer Jack Swyteck proved him innocent. Now they are best friends. Theo is a semi-respectable and successful bar owner, but the past, with its risks and its terrors, has come knocking on his back door. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood wants sanctuary, and in return he is offering information: the identity of the killer who left Theo's mom lying dead in the street on a hot South Florida evening. Theo wants justice, but the answers are not simple. He and Jack must now piece together a twenty-year-old conspiracy of greed and corruption that's pointing toward the city's most elite and powerful. And digging through a history that Theo has struggled his whole life to forget could awaken some very desperate, very deadly sleeping dogs. |
Contributor Bio(s): Grippando, James: - James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense. He was a trial lawyer for twelve years before the publication of his first novel, The Pardon, in 1994. He is now counsel at the law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and an adjunct professor of law and modern literature at the University of Miami School of Law. His novels are enjoyed world-wide in twenty-eight languages, and his novel Gone Again won the 2017 Harper Lee Prize in Legal Fiction. He lives in South Florida. |