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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