"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.
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PAUL LEVINE
The author of 21 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG" and co-created the Supreme Court drama "First Monday" starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. The international bestseller To Speak for the Dead was his first novel. In 2015, Bum Rap became the Number One Bestseller on Amazon. Next: Bum Luck. "A one-sit, must-read novel full of memorable characters and unforgettable vignettes." -- Bookreporter.com New in 2018: Bum Deal, recipient of a "starred review" in Publishers Weekly. The setup: Battling symptoms of CTE from numerous concussions, Lassiter switches sides and prosecutes a surgeon accused of killing his wife. "Bum Deal is fantastic." - Lee Child. Visit Paul's website at paul-levine.com and follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/PaulLevineAuthorPage and on Twitter @Jake_Lassiter