Sydney Bennett is one of the most despised women in the world. After a lengthy trial the cocktail waitress is found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter. No one is more surprised at the verdict than Sydney's attorney, Jack Swyteck.

On the night of Sydney's release from prison, hundreds of angry demonstrators are waiting for her at the prison entrance, but the defense team and the warden get the prisoner out the back way unnoticed. Tragedy strikes when a woman that could pass for Sydney's twin is attacked by the protesters and she now lays in a coma from the injuries she sustained.

No one, including Jack, knows where Sydney is. Jack had delivered Sydney, via ambulance, to a private air strip where she ran into the waiting arms of an unknown man. A cable news show keeps the animosity of the citizens boiling with their unfounded rumors that Sydney has made a book-deal for seven-million dollars of "blood money".

BLOOD MONEY is Grippando and his alter-ego Jack Swyteck at their most dynamic. This is one tautly paced thriller with unforgettable three dimensional characters -- some at their very best, and some at their vilest. The relationship between Jack and his grandmother is fabulous, as is the love and devotion between the attorney and his FBI fiancée, Andie. The twists and turns this tale takes keeps the reader swiftly turning the pages, racing to an ending that is totally unexpected.