Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor. Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients -- a man Jack believes is innocent -- to die in the electric chair. But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other. Together they must find a way to overcome their cunning tormentor's manipulation .

The Pardon - The First Jack Swyteck Novel

Une femme est retrouvée morte dans la baignoire d'un brillant avocat. Tous les soupçons se portent sur lui... Un thriller psychologique où fausses pistes, embrouilles et sombres découvertes se bousculent sur un rythme trépidant.
Quand Jack Swyteck accepte de défendre Jessie, son ex-petite amie, poursuivie par une société d'assurances, il ne se doute pas que sa vie est sur le point de basculer : la jeune femme a monté une arnaque des plus sophistiquées pour découvrir un peu tard que ses adversaires appartiennent à la mafia russe. Terrifiée, elle est bien décidée à entraîner Jack dans sa chute.
Aussi, lorsque Jessie meurt dans de troublantes circonstances, aucun doute possible : c'est lui le meurtrier. Tandis que l'étau se resserre autour du malheureux avocat, le passé trouble de Jessie resurgit, avec son lot de secrets inquiétants. Et, dans l'ombre, un assassin rôde, à l'abri de tout soupçon...

à l'abri de tout soupçon

New York Times bestseller James Grippando returns with a gripping new stand-alone novel: a story ripped from the headlines, in which a young financial adviser and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to Washington, from the trading floors of the Stock Exchange to the deepest halls of government. Like Grippando's recent bestsellers, Afraid of the Dark and Money to Burn-as well as Grippando classics like A King's Ransom and Beyond Suspicion-the provocative Need You Now is a fast-paced thriller in which danger and conspiracy lie behind every plot and promise, and the future of the nation lies in the hands of an unlikely champion."Grippando grips from the first page." -Harlan Coben

Need You Now

From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today's headlines. 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 that threatens to rage out of control when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime.  Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media, Towson's defense attorney, Jack Swyteck, knows that the stakes could not be higher-inside or outside the old Suwanee County Couthouse.  The evidence against his client, which includes a threatening text message referencing "strange fruit" on the river, seems overwhelming. Then Jack gets a break that could turn the case. Jamal's gruesome murder bears disturbing similarities to another lynching that occurred back in the Jim Crow days of 1944. Are the chilling parallels purely coincidental? With a community in chaos and a young man's life in jeopardy, Jack will use every resource to find out.  As he navigates each twist and turn of the search, Jack becomes increasingly convinced that his client may himself be the victim of a criminal plan more sinister than the case presented by the state attorney. Risking his own reputation, this principled man who has devoted his life to the law plunges headfirst into the darkest recesses of the South's past, and its murky present, to uncover answers.  For Jack, it's about the truth. Traversing time, from the days of strict segregation to the present, he'll find it-no matter what the cost-and bring much-needed justice to Suwanee County.

A Death in Live Oak - A Jack Swyteck Novel

After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon. Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued. At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets a hefty settlement. But then Jack finds out it was all a scam. Two days later, Jessie's body turns up floating in Jack's bathtub. As the evidence mounts against him, Jack finds himself on a collision course with dark secrets from the past and a possible killer is beyond suspicion.

Beyond Suspicion

En Colombie, un enlèvement a lieu toutes les trois heures. La dernière proie en date des guérilleros, c'est Matthew Rey, alors en voyage d'affaires à Carthagène. L'ultimatum est clair : et si Nick, son fils, ne paie pas rapidement la rançon de trois millions de dollars, le père sera exécuté. Autant dire qu'il est condamné...
Etrangement, les appuis de Nick se désistent un à un. Le cas de Matthew est troublant : pourquoi multipliait-il les allers-retours entre Miami et Carthagène ? Pourquoi la rançon demandée correspond-elle exactement au montant de l'assurance sourscrite avant son départ ? Et quel rôle joue Alexandra, la belle Colombienne, qui se prétend experte en kidnapping ?
Dans un pays où règnent la violence et la peur, Nick ne pourra compter sur sur lui-même pour sauver son père???

La rançon de la colère

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever. A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she's about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Having no expertise in military law and sensing that the woman isn't telling him the entire truth, Jack turns her down. Then she drops a bombshell: She claims she's the adoptive mother of Jack's biological son -- a child he's never met. Either Jack must represent her or he'll never see the boy. So Jack agrees, but with great foreboding. He has an unreliable client -- a blackmailer who just might be a murderer -- and he has to travel to Gitmo and on to Havana to tussle with people who clearly have a lot to hide. This is a case with as many twists and turns as it has unanswered questions, and the personal toll on Jack won't end until he's forced to confront the ultimate surprise witness in a trial that rocks the city of Miami. In signature Grippando style, Hear No Evil is an intricate, fast-paced, and captivating thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Hear No Evil

Piege par la crise des subprimes, Ruban, immigre cubain est sur le point de tout perdre. Et ca, Ruban ne peut pas l'accepter. Il s'assied sur son respect des lois et fait marcher son cerveau. Il organise le casse du siecle. Et, incroyable, il reussit: 7 millions de dollars detournes sur l'aeroport de Miami au nez et a la barbe de la securite. Jusque-la tout va bien. Le vrai danger est a venir. La police, les mafias... L'enorme somme d'argent vole attire beaucoup l'attention...La situation se grippe et echappe a Ruban et a ses complices dejantes qui accumulent des erreurs qui vont les faire tous plonger. Une veritable caper story a l'americaine, a mi-chemin entre les romans d'Elmore Leonard et Les Affranchis de Scorcese, inspiree d'un fait divers retentissant et transpose dans l'Amerique de la crise. Efficace et drole.  A propos de l'auteur: Auteur de suspense classe parmi les meilleures ventes du New York Times, James Grippando a ecrit plus de 20 romans et s'est fait connaitre en France avec Le Pardon. Recemment, il a signe Les Profondeurs (editions Mosaic). Avant de se consacrer a l'ecriture, James Grippando a exerce 12 ans en tant qu'avocat et continue d'exercer en tant que consultant. Il vit en Floride.

Operation Cash

Jack Swyteck, jeune et brillant avocat, est spécialiste des affaires criminelles délicates. Sa carrière n'a connu qu'un seul faux pas : l'exécution de Raul Fernandez. Jack avait pourtant réussi à réunir les preuves irréfutables de l'innocence de son client, mais trop tardivement - son père, l'intraitable Harold Swyteck, gouverneur de Floride, avait refusé de réexaminer le dossier. Deux ans plus tard le père et le fils se trouvent plongés au coeur d'une redoutable machination, et devront cette fois faire cause commune pour échapper à un tueur psychopathe bien décidé à venger la mort de Fernandez...

The Pardon - The First Jack Swyteck Novel

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