Last Chance Lassiter

"If your cause is just, no case is impossible." -Jake Lassiter This time, the linebacker-turned-lawyer faces overwhelming odds. Lassiter represents Cadillac Johnson, an aging rhythm and blues musician who claims his greatest song was stolen by a top-of-the-charts hip-hop artist. Lassiter's personal life is in chaos. He loses his job at a deep-carpet law firm and moves to a dumpy office in a Miami Beach parking garage. Then his lawyer-girlfriend, the ambitious Kim Coates, dumps him for not being "partnership material." Not only that, he faces disbarment after punching out his own client. Only a few years out of law school, Lassiter is already developing his iconoclastic rules. "I will live by no code but my own." This time, that code could leave him disbarred or bankrupt...or worse.

The author of 18 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama ＂JAG＂ and co-created the Supreme Court drama ＂First Monday＂ starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. The critically acclaimed international bestseller ＂To Speak for the Dead＂ featuring Jake Lassiter was his first novel. He is also the author of the ＂Solomon vs. Lord＂ series and the thrillers ＂Illegal,＂ ＂Ballistic,＂ ＂Impact,＂ and ＂Paydirt.＂ His most recent novel is ＂State vs. Lassiter.＂ He is a graduate of Penn State University and the University of Miami Law School. He lives in Miami, FL. More at http: //www.paul-levine.com