James Grippando
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Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!
Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.
In this timely Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling writer James Grippando heads to Cuba with a tale that reeks of the headlines, given the changing state of American-Cuban affairs. Featured is Grippando's recurring hero...
Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.
In this timely Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling writer James Grippando heads to Cuba with a tale that reeks of the headlines, given the changing state of American-Cuban affairs. Featured is Grippando's recurring hero...
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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. James Grippando, el escritor de suspense imprescindible. Jack Swyteck. ¿Qué 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...
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Cuando asume la defensa de una mujer acusada de asesinar al hombre que la agredió sexualmente, el abogado de Miami, Jack Swyteck, debe descubrir dónde reside la verdad, entre la inocencia, la venganza y la justicia en este fascinante relato de suspense del gran maestro del thriller legal.
Según el FBI, la situación más peligrosa para una mujer de entre veinte y treinta años es estar en una relación con un hombre, y esas estadísticas cobran...
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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. James Grippando, el escritor de suspense imprescindible. Jack Swyteck. ¿Qué 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...
5) Blood money
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"A nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a hot nightclub waitress accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. It's the most watched trial since O.J. Simpson, and millions of "TV Jurors" have convicted Jack's client in the arena of public opinion. The shocking verdict--not guilty--creates an immediate uproar, from angry phone calls to outright threats. Media-fed rumors of "blood money" in the form of seven-figure book...
6) Twenty
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It is the message every parent of a school-age child fears: “Active Shooter on Campus.” Jack Swyteck is at his office when he receives the emergency text from Riverside Day School. Both his daughter, Righley, and his wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, are in danger. Andie is in the school’s rec center when she hears the fire alarms, then loud popping noises and screams coming from the hallway. Andie knows she’s supposed to stay locked down inside...
7) The big lie
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As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod,...
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Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual advances. Suddenly—thanks to an "anonymous" tip to U. S. immigration authorities—she is arrested, locked in detention with criminals, and slated for deportation. Jack's only viable legal move to save her is asylum....
9) Cane and Abe
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Samantha died too soon. Abe Beckham's new wife, Angelina, has helped him through the loss, but some say it was a step back to marry her. A woman's body is discovered dumped in the Everglades, and Abe, star prosecutor at the Miami State Attorney's Office, is called upon to monitor the investigation. The FBI is tracking a killer in South Florida they call “Cutter”. But when the feds discover that Abe had a brief encounter with the victim after Samantha's...
10) Beyond suspicion
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Believing himself settled into a quiet life, lawyer Jack Swyteck is horrified when a former client turns up dead, placing Jack under suspicion and forcing him to find the real killer before he becomes the next victim.
11) Gone again
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Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago. The night after the teenager’s disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi’s clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle’s execution, Sashi’s mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news: “Sashi...
13) Got the look
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
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Jack Swyteck's new girlfriend, Mia, is keeping secrets from the love-struck Miami attorney, not the least of which is a wealthy and powerful husband. Then Mia is kidnapped by a manipulative abductor who makes a chilling ransom request, "Pay me what she's worth." Now Jack's the one under the gun, since Mia's 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 the...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 9
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Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's daughter, McKenna, bleeding in his arms as she uttered the name of her murderer and ex-boyfriend, Jamal. That was minutes before a blast made everything go black for Vince--forever. Now Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck has been called in to save Jamal from the death penalty.
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Michael Centella is a rising star at Wall Street investment bank Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until the love of his life, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Seven years later, Michael's got undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he's desperate to clear his name. He doesn't want to believe it, but the signs point to his...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 14
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When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm. When Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, defense attorney Jack Swyteck knows that the stakes could not be higher. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another...
17) Code 6: a novel
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Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she’s been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. But Kate is compelled to tell this story, a play about the dark side of Big Data. Then Patrick Battle...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
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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 daughter's surgery. But their long-awaited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keith's 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...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
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"Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. Ruban Betancourt has always played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant business going bust has driven him over the edge. He and his wife deserve more than life has handed them, and he's come...
20) Found money
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Two people are joined romantically by a windfall of money. One is Ryan Duffy, a doctor who inherits $2 million--blackmail money, his father tells him before dying. The other is Amy Parkens who receives $200,000 anonymously. She traces the money to Duffy's father and together Ryan and Amy discover that the blackmail was in revenge for being framed for rape. By the author of The Abduction.