FOOL ME TWICE [Hardcover]

PAUL LEVINE (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: MORROW (1995)
• ASIN: B000VICRDY
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,197,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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PAUL LEVINE worked as a newspaper reporter, a law professor and a trial lawyer before becoming a full-time novelist. Obviously, he cannot hold a job. Paul claims that writing fiction comes naturally: he told whoppers for many years in his legal briefs. His books have been translated into 23 languages, none of which he can read.

He has won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for an Edgar, a Macavity, the International Thriller Writers Award, and the James Thurber Humor Prize.

What's new? Now on Amazon Kindle at $2.99: The 20th Anniversary edition of "To Speak for the Dead," the first of the bestselling Jake Lassiter novels. All author proceeds of the novel are pledged to the Four Diamonds Fund, which supports cancer treatment and research at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

Writing in USA TODAY, Larry King called the Lassiter series, "Mystery writing at its very, very best."

To Speak for the Dead
Night Vision
False Dawn
Mortal Sin
Riptide
Fool Me Twice
Flesh & Bones

A Miami Dolphins linebacker turned hard-nosed lawyer, Lassiter has been described by Booklist as "one of the most entertaining series characters in contemporary crime fiction" and by The Miami Herald as having "a lot more charisma than Perry Mason ever did."

Also now available on Kindle, "Impact," a legal thriller set at the Supreme Court; "Ballistic," in which a homegrown terrorist group takes over a missile silo in Wyoming; and "The Road to Hell," four original short stories.

Paul's other work includes the "Solomon and Lord" series, featuring mismatched Miami lawyers Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord:

Solomon vs. Lord
The Deep Blue Alibi
Kill All the Lawyers
Trial & Error

"Fans of Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry will enjoy this humorous Florida crime romp," Publishers Weekly wrote of "Solomon vs. Lord."

Paul also wrote "Illegal," a thriller set in the world of human trafficking on the Mexican border. His next novel will be "Lassiter," due in hardcover from Bantam in September 2011.

Paul wrote 20 episodes of the TV series JAG, which gave him an opportunity to steer a nuclear submarine and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, all without endangering national security. He is a graduate of Penn State University where he majored in journalism and the University of Miami Law School where he majored in the swimming pool. He passed the Florida Bar exam in his first try in what he suspects was a computer glitch.

He was a trial lawyer with the mammoth international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he did not even pretend to know all his partners' names. He specialized in "complex litigation," cases so abstruse that even lawyers charging 500 bucks an hour didn't fully understand them. He tried hundreds of cases and handled appeals at every level, including the Supreme Court. Along the way, he filed expense accounts nearly as creative as his legal briefs.

Paul says he enjoys writing more than lawyering because he no longer keeps time sheets and gets to work in his underwear. He lives in the hills of Southern California, which he claims are populated by rattlesnakes and coyotes, and those are just the Hollywood agents.

More info at http:www.paul-levine.com

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jake Lassiter: Have Briefcase, Will Travel, January 21, 2011

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Frank Kingman - See all my reviews

This review is from: FOOL ME TWICE (The Jake Lassiter Series) (Kindle Edition)

Maybe I should have said, Have Briefcase and Fists...Will Travel.

There must not be enough trouble in Miami for our old pal, Jake. He keeps hitting the road, getting into scrapes. Okay, he stayed home in TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (The Jake Lassiter Series), defending a murder trial in Florida. That's when I got hooked on the character, a lawyer who barely passed the bar -- on his fourth try -- after an undistinguished career as a backup linebacker for the Miami Dolphins.

Then, Jake gets himself appointed a special prosecutor and heads to London in search of a serial killer in NIGHT VISION (The Jake Lassiter Series). The scenes in a hospital for the criminally insane managed to be both chilling and hilarious.

Next, Jake has a murder case in Florida that takes him to Havana in FALSE DAWN (The Jake Lassiter Series). I've noticed that Levine likes to write scenes on boats, as did John D. MacDonald, with whom his work is sometimes compared.

Jake stays close to home in MORTAL SIN (The Jake Lassiter Series) which has one chilling scene in the Everglades (and another involving a manatee I thought was too goofy). Then it was Hawaii in RIPTIDE (The Jake Lassiter Series), which has a scene involving a helicopter, two bad guys, and an active volcano that you'll remember a long time.

Now, in FOOL ME TWICE (The Jake Lassiter Series), the search for buried treasure takes Jake to Colorado and an old silver mine located under the ski slopes in Aspen. Oh, and there's the little matter of Jake being a suspect in a murder case back in Miami. Those two stories come together nicely. We meet a rancher who's obsessed with finding a priceless artifact from the Old West...a guy who's a little too handy with a nail gun. There's a femme fatale from Jake's past....something the author uses perhaps a bit too much, and a hilarious client named Blinky Baroso. (He blinks whenever he tells a lie, and usually his eyes are flapping like Venetian blinds).

One of Levine's best. A scary ending. Highly recommended.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lassiter Heads for the Hills, June 25, 2011

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Shelley Brewster "Lady Trial Lawyer" (Palm Beach, FL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: FOOL ME TWICE (The Jake Lassiter Series) (Kindle Edition)

I love the Jake Lassiter novels for their South Florida locations. This time, Blinky Baroso, one of Lassiter's funniest clients, is running a con that lands our hero in hot water: the prime suspect in a murder. Jake takes off for Colorado to find evidence and runs into a dangerous cowboy who's good with a nail gun. Lassiter uncovers a secret right under the Aspen ski slopes that blows the case wide open. As usual, there's humor and suspense and a dangerous dame. Why does Lassiter keep falling for these femme fatales? 'Cause he's a guy, I guess. A fast paced, witty story with little known (and true) history about silver mining days that I found both fun and informative. Jake Lassiter remains my favorite lawyer in or out of court.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Enjoyable, November 8, 2011

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SanDiegoJesse - See all my reviews

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This review is from: FOOL ME TWICE (The Jake Lassiter Series) (Kindle Edition)

This is one of those times when I have to stop mid-book to write a review. Far from my fave genre, but I thought I'd grab it for a quick read. Was I surprised to find this author's writing style so much fun and engaging from start to finish (I assume it'll hold my interest). I'm thoroughly enjoying this book. So much so, that I'll look for others by this author.