Kirkus ReviewsMiami criminal-defense lawyer Jack Swyteck is back in action, defending an old friend and rekindling an old flame in this fast-paced thriller. After another standalone, Grippando (Lying with Strangers, 2007, etc.) brings back the likable Swyteck for a seventh wild ride. This time, old crimes are challenging old friends and reawakening the ghosts of South Florida's past. Swyteck's best friend Theo, a former death-row inmate, is implicated when a former gang buddy breaks out of prison. The gangster, Isaac, wants help but Theo knows better than to jeopardize his new life, his relationship with his girlfriend, Trina, or his plans to open a jazz bar in the spirit of Miami's lost African-American heyday. So Isaac uses the murder of Theo's mother, 20 years earlier, as bait, promising information about that unsolved crime, and lays a trail for the cops to Theo's door, to push him into action.
