Ballantine
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Featuring: Krista Larkin; Amy Larkin; Jake Lassiter
288 pages ISBN: 0553806742 EAN: 9780553806748 Kindle: B004J4WN5I Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a
teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida’s sex
trade. Now he retraces her steps and runs head-on into a
conspiracy of Miami’s rich and powerful who would do
anything to keep the past as dark as night and silent as the
grave. In this tale of redemption and revenge,
Edgar-nominated author Paul Levine delivers his most
powerful thriller yet.
Jake Lassiter,
second-string linebacker turned low-rent lawyer, is cynical
about the law, but if you hire him, he’ll take a punch for
you . . . and maybe a swing at the prosecutor,
too.
Amy Larkin—beautiful, angry, and
mysterious—accuses Lassiter of involvement in the
disappearance of her sister eighteen years earlier. What
does Lassiter know about Krista Larkin, the runaway teen
turned porn actress? More than he’s saying.
Seeking
to atone for his own past, Lassiter follows the cold trail
of the missing Krista and butts head with the powerful men
who also knew her: a former porn king turned philanthropist,
a slick Cuban-born prosecutor who’d love to be governor, and
an aging mobster who once worked for the infamous Meyer
Lansky.
The evidence leads to a long-ago night
of kinky sex, designer drugs—and possible murder. But before
Lassiter can nail the truth, a gun goes off, a suspect falls
dead, and Amy is charged with murder.
The state has
an eyewitness and a slam-dunk case. Lassiter has a client he
doesn’t trust and a case he can’t win. Did Amy shoot the man
who killed her sister? Or the wrong man? And what really
happened to Krista? The answers, buried under years of
deceit and corruption, are revealed in an explosive
courtroom finale proving that rough justice is better than
no justice at all.
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