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c2010
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English
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On the eve of his 35th birthday, Cantella goes from being a star performer at a premier Wall Street investment firm to a financially wiped-out victim of identity theft. His Job-like troubles are just beginning as the fallout not only rocks his second marriage and his firm but sets him up for a life on the run. Why Cantella specifically is targeted and how the vicious and relentless personal attacks relate to the unexplained disappearance (and presumed...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 6
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English
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Becoming suspicious when a homeless client produces a large amount of cash just before a murdered body is discovered in the car in which the client lives, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself racing to save the life of his best friend.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a $60 billion Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave. For Patrick Lloyd, a young Wall Street advisor at the world's largest Swiss bank, Cushman's fall has unexpected -- and deadly -- repercussions. Lloyd's girlfriend, Lilly, is directly tied to billions of dollars in losses suffered by Cushman's most dangerous victims, a group of powerful investors, whose identities and dirty finances...
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English
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"Peyton Shields had always wanted to be a doctor, and now, thanks to her relentless drive, stellar academic credentials, and a mountain of debt to Harvard Medical School, she's a first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital. The hours are impossibly long, but it's the life she wants, complete with a husband who's an up-and-coming young lawyer." "But a late-night drive home in a heavy snowstorm changes everything. A car coming straight...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 11
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English
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"It's devu, with a big twist. Three summers after the biggest man-made environmental disaster in history, millions of gallons of oil are again spewing from a hole in the ocean floor. But this rig explosion was in Cuban waters, just 50 miles away from Florida, and the situation is complex. The consortium doing the work is state-owned Venezuelan, Chinese and Russian, controlled by a mineral lease from the Cuban government. And the Cubans not only refuse...
6) Found money
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English
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"Amy Parkens is a struggling single mother forced to abandon a career in astronomy for a practical computer job. She feels condemned to long hours, low pay, and no time to spend with her daughter. Then an unmarked package arrives. There's no card, no note, no return address. Someone has simply sent her a small fortune. Amy has no idea who - or why. She only knows her dead-end life has changed forever."--BOOK JACKET. "But when she tries to look her...
7) Last call
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
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English
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Now the owner of a successful Miami bar, ex-con Theo enjoys his new life--until a former gang associate breaks out of prison. But when the fugitive turns up dead, Theo finds himself in prison desperately trying to connect two murders and a recent attempt on his life.
8) Cane and Abe
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English
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Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect when his wife's disappearance may have a chilling connection to the vicious murders of beautiful women in the Florida Everglades.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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While on business in Cartagena, Matthew Rey is kidnapped by ruthless bandits. The kidnappers know about a $3 million insurance policy that covers Matthew's ransom and, to make matters worse, the insurance company suspects fraud and refuses to hand over the money. His son Nick goes to the FBI for help, but they too have grown suspicious of Matthew and his frequent trips to Colombia.
10) Got the look
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
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A beautiful woman is kidnapped, and a chilling ransom demand is sent to her wealthy husband. FBI agent Andie Henning is up against a unique breed of serial kidnapper. Enter Jack Swyteck. He has a new girlfriend, and life is good until Mia Salazar goes missing. Then the bottom falls out. Jack finds out his lover is married. Worse, her rich husband gets a ransom demand that pegs Mia as the kidnapper's next victim. Worst of all, her husband knows about...
11) Blood money
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 10
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English
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"A nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a hot nightclub waitress accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. It's the most watched trial since O.J. Simpson, and millions of "TV Jurors" have convicted Jack's client in the arena of public opinion. The shocking verdict--not guilty--creates an immediate uproar, from angry phone calls to outright threats. Media-fed rumors of "blood money" in the form of seven-figure book...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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English
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Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck comes to the aid of his former governor father as he investigates the suspicious hunting death of the vice president.
13) Intent to Kill
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English
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A fallen baseball star must use his new skills as Boston's king of sports radio to outwit a dangerous caller and prove--live and on the air--that the hit-and-run that killed his wife was no accident.
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Every week, a hundred million dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks. But a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences.
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 14
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English
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James Grippando delivers his most explosive and riveting suspense novel yet: a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as todays headlines, in which Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged with a heinous racial crime-the first lynching in Florida in more than a half century. When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Floridas flagship university,...
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English
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Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter, Beatriz, escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence, and Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American...
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 16
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent with each revelation more explosive than the next.
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English
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Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news:...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 18
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English
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"Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols. The result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover."--
20) Cane and Abel
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Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.