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Last To Die (Jack Swyteck #3)
by
James Grippando (Goodreads Author)
In an exciting new series that critics have called "John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum," criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet.Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack's newest client. He's been named in the will of a gorgeous young woman who was shot dead in her Mercedes on a Miami street.
Sally Fenning was w...more
Sally Fenning was w...more
Paperback, Large Print, 608 pages
Published
July 1st 2003
by Harper
(first published 2002)
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A divorced lady who daughter is murdered five years ago contacted a contract killer in a bar. She wants his professional services. Contract killer asked her to whom she wanted to kill. She told the contract killer that she wanted to kill herself. After some days the lady was killed at red light on road in daylight. Some days later contract killer elder brother contacted a lawyer who wants to represent his brother. Once the same lawyer saved Contract Killer Elder brother life from death Row. The...more
I love it when the authors of "murder & mayhen" mysteries include some social issues--it reduces my guilt for reading and thoroughly enjoying my "trashy novels." In this case, Grippando brings in child slavery in the chocolate industry and mentions the FL tomato pickers. Without overdoing it for those who just want a quick read, Grippando gives a solid view of life and hardship among some of Africa's most disadvantaged.
Of course, there is the matter of the novel itself. Grippando has written...more
Of course, there is the matter of the novel itself. Grippando has written...more
This book is reasonably suspenseful and interesting. Young wife and mother is attacked in her own home, and the attacker kills her 4 year old daughter, but allows her to live. Her marriage falls apart, but she remarries a wealthy older man. That, too, turns out horribly when she discovers he makes his money by trafficking in slave labor to harvest cacoa beans. He also passes along AIDS to his new wife. She decides to end her life by hiring a hit man to take it, but not before setting up a will t...more
The third entry in Grippando's Jack Swyteck series is a fast-paced legal thriller. The author continues to add nuance to his characters, especially some much needed background for Theo.
The mystery really worked for me. A beautiful woman with an incredibly tragic past dies, leaving a $46 million estate to six seemingly unrelated people who had, in some way, wronged her. The money is in trust and isn't shared by the six, but only passed to the last of them to die, setting them up in a survival gam...more
The mystery really worked for me. A beautiful woman with an incredibly tragic past dies, leaving a $46 million estate to six seemingly unrelated people who had, in some way, wronged her. The money is in trust and isn't shared by the six, but only passed to the last of them to die, setting them up in a survival gam...more
The best part of this thriller was the plot; a beatiful young woman was found shot dead in her Mercedes...it seemed she had moved on from her struggling waitress days when she was brutally attacked and her young daughter killed in their own home. Having divorced and then remarried a wealthy foreign man, she left a will distributing $48 million--but the potential heirs (including a hired killer, her ex-husband, a newspaper reporter) start dying off.
The payoff (to the story!)was feasible and a lit...more
The payoff (to the story!)was feasible and a lit...more
This is the third Jack Swyteck novel, and I'm just not getting into this series. Although the plot is excellent in this one, James Grippando's dialogue does not ring true, and the constant delving into Jack's feelings and reasons for his behavior with flashback after flashback really makes the story drag. I will continue reading the series, hoping that Grippando's technical skills will soon equal his creativity. If so, he will be an outstanding novelist.
Language! Sad story of greed and deception. A woman sets up her own murder by hiring a hit man. She, young, beautiful and very rich so why did she do it!! Her will leaves all her money, 46 million dollars to 6 people who can only inhereit when there is only 1 survior left and so the deaths begin. And the big reason is why did she choose these 6 people and all starts to come clear very quickly as they start dieing.
Jul 22, 2012
Ashland Mystery Oregon
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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My first James Grippando work, Last to Die, was a fast interesting legal thriller. Set in Miami's heat and political tensions, the work also reaches to Africa where it addresses child slavery on the cocoa plantations. Lots of twists and no way to predict the outcome of this complicated heir to the fortune plot.
--Ashland Mystery
--Ashland Mystery
Loved it. Great story, great murder mystery, set in Florida in places I know.
A young Sally Fenning is murdered and leaves her millions to several folks.....but only to the one that survives. Obviously, they were not Sally's friends, so as one is bumped off after the other, who is the killer? Who killed her child, why was her child killed.
Love, mystery and friendship as criminal defense lawyer Jack Swytek trys to solve the mystery, and in doing so, becomes the target!
Actually, this was on the bo...more
A young Sally Fenning is murdered and leaves her millions to several folks.....but only to the one that survives. Obviously, they were not Sally's friends, so as one is bumped off after the other, who is the killer? Who killed her child, why was her child killed.
Love, mystery and friendship as criminal defense lawyer Jack Swytek trys to solve the mystery, and in doing so, becomes the target!
Actually, this was on the bo...more
I'm still not completely sold on Jack Swyteck - however this is the third novel I've read that stars him as the hero, so honestly, I must be at least a little bit sold. I don't like how the love interests and former girlfriends are all completely bat-poop crazy. It's a tiresome plot technique. But the puzzle was good - and that's what matters in a thriller.
Interesting twist on the standard murder mystery. Rich woman with a troubled past is murdered, apparently by someone she hired to kill her. Her $46 million dollar estate is willed to six people she hated, but only one can inherit the money. Main character is a lawyer hired by one of the people listed in the will. Some bad language.
A beautiful heiress is murdered. Swyteck's new client admits that she tried to hire him to kill her, but swears he didn't do it. The heiress left a will leaving $46 million to 6 people, including Swyteck's client. The catch is, only the last one living will collect. A lot of twists and turns and suspense.
Excellent; Continuing character: Jack Swyteck; helping his friend's brother becomes a problem when he is included as one of a few who can qualify to inherit $46M by being last survivor
One of my favorite thrillers. An incredibly interesting premise with a sequence of events that unravels the story of a very sad woman's life through the eyes of a lawyer.
I really enjoyed this book and the premise was very interesting. A young wealthy woman wills all of her money to the sole survivor among her 6 enemies. I like the characters, Jack and Theo and I love their interactions and adventures. I can't wait to read the next one.
I really enjoyed this book. The story kept moving and I found it hard to put down. I didn't figure out who did it until the very end of the book.
It started out good but i felt towards the end it was dragging too much it seemed like it could kept up the pace better.
Great plot guarantees lots of suspicion & plot twists. This is a good series with a believable hero.
Great book for a plane trip - relatively mindless but the writing and storyline fairly good
Dec 16, 2008
John
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
probably no one
Hmm, rather craptacular. Yeah, the book is fast paced. A few typos. I guess it's readable, but not recommendable.
Good characterizations and an interesting plot thesis. Good read.
Really interesting mystery. Who will be the last person standing?
A wild and raucous tale of a contemporary tontine. Fast paced.
The plot is clever, but the narration lacks pace.
Very cool idea, great writing. I loved it.
Florida mystery...a pretty good who done it....
Too repetitious. Each character has to fill other characters in on what's going on, although the reader already knows that stuff. Synopsis: Woman is stabbed and her daughter killed. She divorces and remarries, this time to an extremely wealthy man. Her will leaves 46 million dollars to the last man alive, out of six people she hated.
I listed to this on CD. The reader Nick Sullivan has a nice deep voice, but it's difficult to listen to in the car; I have to keep turning the volume up and down. Hi...more
I listed to this on CD. The reader Nick Sullivan has a nice deep voice, but it's difficult to listen to in the car; I have to keep turning the volume up and down. Hi...more
Great book. Gets a little confusing trying to remember all the different characters
An odd premise, but a great story.
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James Grippando is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels of suspense, including 10 in the popular series featuring Miami criminal defense attorny Jack Swyteck. He is also the author of "Leapholes" for young adults. His novels are enjoyed worldwide in twenty-six languages. James was a trial lawyer for twelve years and is now Counsel to one of the nation's leading law firms. He live...more
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